# Kabita Mukhiya

Type: Person

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-13**: AP documents the toll in Nepal — The Associated Press reports from Gaur, Nepal, on Kabita Mukhiya's loss and the collapse of USAID-funded maternal outreach after aid workers stopped visiting villages.
- **2025**: USAID dissolved — The Trump administration dissolves the U.S. Agency for International Development, gutting maternal and neonatal care and nutrition programs serving millions of pregnant women.
- **2025**: Gates Foundation warns of child-death reversal — The foundation predicts 2025 will be the first year this century in which global child deaths increase, driven by foreign-aid cuts.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### USAID Dissolution: 2025 Could Mark First Rise in Under-5 Deaths This Century
2026-08-13 20:35:17 · Sentiment: Strongly negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

The Trump administration's dissolution of USAID removed frontline maternal and neonatal outreach from rural Nepal, where women like Kabita Mukhiya now reach hospitals only after emergencies turn fatal. The Gates Foundation warns 2025 will be the first year this century with rising global child deaths, with official under-5 mortality data still months away. For health-system leaders, the case exposes the hidden cost of losing last-mile community health workers.
Full story: https://gethealthbrief.com/story/usaid-dissolution-2025-under-5-child-deaths-nepal

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