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These three children died in the wake of the cutoff of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Their parents say that the loss of medical services supported by these funds played a role. From left: Abdullahi Ibrahim of Nigeria, age 10, suffered a fatal asthma attack. Purity Wamboi of Kenya, 16, contracted tuberculosis. Ibrahim Garba of Nigeria, 8, succumbed to typhoid.
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