We should not underestimate the devastating impact of aid cuts on the global outlook for women’s health (UK aid budget cuts are ‘death sentence’ for world’s most vulnerable children). The international development committee’s report on aid funding allocation has revealed that critical healthcare services will be withdrawn from some of the world’s most vulnerable women and girls.
In Afghanistan, for example, maternal mortality rates are already nearly three times higher than the global average. According to data for 2020 from the UN Population Fund, for every 100,000 live births in Afghanistan, 620 women die. The prospect of further stripping away support and resources is shocking not only for the girls and women of Afghanistan, but globally.
