On January 20, 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14169, which imposed the immediate suspension of all new foreign funding by federal agencies in the northern country.

The UN Children’s Fund treated more than 4,600 children with severe acute malnutrition; a figure that barely represents 3.6 percent of the 129,000 children expected to need treatment this year.

The proportion of institutional maternal deaths due to institutional births also increased from 250 to 350 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between February 2022 and April 2025.

According to the newspaper Le National, in terms of security, the effects are equally worrying.

Sexual and gender-based violence increased in neighborhoods controlled by armed groups.

In short, the withdrawal of US funds led to a multidimensional regression in the rights of women and girls in Haiti, with consequences that will last for years.

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