Dark cloud over funding cuts

REPORT: MORE CHILDREN COULD DIE, WARNS UN

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Cuts in international aid could bring an end to decades of progress in fighting child mortality and even reverse the trend, the United Nations warned on Monday.

Although the annual report from Unicef, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank does not single out the United States, it comes as President Donald Trump's administration has axed the vast majority of the programmes carried out by USAID, America's main overseas aid agency with a former annual budget of $42.8 billion (about R777 billion).

"The global health community cannot be worried enough at the situation that we are seeing," said Fouzia Shafique, Unicef's associate director of health.