Transcript of Uganda impacted by USAID cuts

I feel like the world is ending tomorrow because I don't know where I'm going to go. I don't know my tomorrow, if I'll be alive or dead. Thirty-six-year-old Samuel Linda has been living with HIV since 2014, getting his life-saving drugs from a USAID project. But his supplies are almost out. Usaid is a lifeline to millions here, millions who would be stuck without it. These are thank you notes from patients here to the medical team at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda. They cover HIV, TB, Mpox, and even the current Ebola outbreak, the country's eighth. The implication is that US funding has got patients like these ones alive. The US is one of Uganda's largest donors, spending more than half a billion dollars in health care alone every year. More than a third of USAID funds came to Africa in 2023. Those dollars saved lives, but also supported many Americans.

Without US funding, people die. Without global collaboration, people die.

Wynnie Bienyima runs the UN's global response to the AIDS epidemic. They warn that up to 6. 3 million people could die by 2029 if the US cuts off funding. Americans will also lose out.

Sometimes I say we have the diseases, they have the profits. They make money. The aid connects them to markets, and markets benefit American companies, and American jobs are created at home.

Usaid is not just charity to African countries.

No, it's mutually beneficial.

But the negative sentiment isn't one that's shared by all of Africa's leaders. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Rwanda's President says the continent has to win itself off aid.

In President Trump's unconventional ways of doing things, I completely agree with him on many things.

Even though it will hurt you as Rwanda, which depends on some USAID to find your health care and development.

We might learn some lessons.

Self-sufficient countries might sound ideal in theory, but it brings little comfort to the millions across the world whose very survival hangs in the balance.