About $238 million worth of health supplies have been stuck in warehouses and transit following the President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze aids through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to lawsuit details filed by contractors on Tuesday, $150 million in health products are stranded in warehouses, with $88.5 million in transit at risk of expiring, being damaged, or stolen.
The lawsuit warns that if those medical products are not delivered, as many as 566,000 people, including 215,000 children, could die from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs.