Aid cuts put lives at risk - will you help?
With your help, we immunise infants against TB, provide safe water, prevent malaria, deliver babies, and train health workers. USAID cuts put that life-saving work in jeopardy. Stand with Africa, donate today.
Sudden political decisions to freeze and cut critical international aid is putting life-saving work across Africa in immediate jeopardy.
For almost 70 years, Amref Health Africa has been a lifeline for communities across the African continent. Our tailored, community-led services deliver essential healthcare to 17 million people in 35 countries, from pregnant women, to infants who need to be vaccinated against diseases that could take their lives, to young people determined to take control of their health and rights.
But overnight, some of our most critical services came to a halt.
On 6th February, the USAID funding freeze brought 20 Amref programmes providing critical services to a halt.
Then without any warning, on 25th February, the UK Government announced a drastic reduction in the overseas aid budget - by around 40%.
Just one day later, we received 15 Amref contract termination notices from the US Government – for programmes in five countries. This leaves a gap of $28m, putting critical health interventions and lives at risk.
For Africa’s health systems, still recovering from the COVID pandemic and dealing with recurrent Mpox outbreaks, another blow like this could be fatal. If we cannot secure funding to protect our projects, the progress you’ve helped us to make risks being reversed.
Millions of lives are at risk. We can’t let this happen.
Will you stand with Africa?
Donate todayThis is a crisis that puts millions of lives at risk
Across Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, no US Government funding means that Amref teams must stop our vital work. The impact is immediate:
- 1,002 clinics that Amref has supported are now without medical supplies.
- Between 1.4m and 1.6m people will not get critical HIV testing services.
- 108,000 people with HIV, including 32,000 children, are no longer receiving the life-saving anti-retroviral medication Amref was providing.
- 157,000 babies and children will miss out on full immunisations against fatal diseases.
- More than 90,000 women will give birth without the support of a skilled birth attendant, and nearly 100,000 newborns will not get post-natal care.
Please make an emergency donation today to help efforts to restore vital health services for millions.
We were getting used to having health services close by. Now it feels like we have been forgotten.
Meet Victoria Enock
“I used to walk just 30 minutes [to go to the outreach clinic] to get my child vaccinated or seek treatment,” says young mum Victoria Enock (pictured). “But now, I will have to walk for three hours to the nearest health centre, which is not ideal with a young child."
Where Victoria comes from in rural Malawi, 29 babies die for every 1,000 born alive. Most die due to pregnancy and childbirth complications, or from preventable diseases, because their mothers cannot access basic healthcare. That is an unacceptable fact.
To improve prospects for both mothers and babies, Amref Health Africa’s US-funded ‘MOMENTUM’ project has been bringing high-quality care closer to pregnant women in five remote districts of Central Malawi. But, as one of 15 Amref programmes that were terminated as part of the decimation of USAID, MOMENTUM came to a halt overnight.
With each passing day, the crisis is building. We are determined to get our critical projects up and running again - but we need your help.
By making a gift to Amref Health Africa, together we can help to build a strong African health system – for people’s urgent needs now, and for the next generation..
Images: Fanizo Sementi, community health worker, immunises a young baby at a health outreach © Amref Health Africa/Amaru Photography; Victoria Enock, a young mum from Central Malawi © Amref Health Africa 2025