Recent reductions in foreign aid — not just from the United States but also from many of the world’s wealthiest countries — could lead to many unfortunate outcomes.

Among these could be a resurgence in the preventable deaths of children due to the sudden unavailability of vaccines and medicines. To be blunt, many children under 5 who otherwise would live will instead die.

As veteran Deseret News reporter Lois M. Collins reported this week , the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle predicts an increase in the deaths of children under 5 from 4.6 million in 2024 to 4.8 million in 2025.

The predictions were part of an analysis in the Gates Foundation’s 2025 Goalkeepers Report .

Reversing a trend

To put this in perspective, it is the fi

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