Only three weeks into the Trump administration’s suspension of money for foreign aid, those who work in women’s health say the impact has already been devastating.

*This article originally appeared in the New York Times.

Women are being turned away at clinics that provided maternity and reproductive care and cancer and H.I.V. treatment. Doctors and nurses have been placed on leave and told to go home. Across the globe, aid agencies say, decades of female-focused health care work has been “decimated overnight.”

Three weeks into President Trump’s suspension of all foreign aid, and already the impact on millions of women and girls is catastrophic and health care systems are “crumbling,” according to the United Nations and other women-focused global aid agencies.

“You can’t get treatment and you can’t get care because America has decided on a whim that you are not worthy, that is unfathomable,” said Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president and chief executive of the Global Health Council. “We are in the fight for everybody’s lives.”

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