Sources
This outlines the sources used for the data summarized on this site.
Where "Media reports" are mentioned, you can find links to them on the relevant counter's page: click the Info icon next to the counter (or on any node in tree view), then Explore the data.
USAID Shutdown
Culpability Attenuation (all USAID counters)
The four-year attenuation window used by every USAID counter's culpability model, and the staircase schedule used by the two AIDS counters, derive from the published PEPFAR transition plan:
Diarrhea
Malaria
- Malaria Atlas Project: PMI 2025 analysis
- Malaria Adult Impact Counter
- Malaria Child Impact Counter
- Malaria Impact Methodology
- Wikipedia:President's Malaria Initiative
Malnutrition
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Pneumonia
President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
- UNAIDS: Impact of US funding cuts
- KFF: Status of PEPFAR
- Friends of the Global Fight: PEPFAR Transition Report (April 2026)
- PEPFAR Impact Tracker page at PrEPWatch
- PEPFAR Impact Counter
- PEPFAR Impact Counter Methodology
- Wikipedia:President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Tuberculosis
- Mandal et al., "A deadly equation", PLOS Global Public Health (2025)
- Tuberculosis Impact Counter
- Tuberculosis Impact Methodology
- Wikipedia:Tuberculosis
Military Operations
War in Iran (Epic Fury)
- icasualties.org
- HRANA
- Airwars
- Iranian state media and wire-service reports (military acknowledgements), linked from each entry
War in Venezuela
Peacetime Naval Interdiction
- Wikipedia:United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
- New York Times:Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
- Media reports
U.S. Public Health
Measles
- CDC:Measles Cases and Outbreaks
- Media reports
- Wikipedia:Measles
Pertussis
ICE
Deaths in ICE Custody
- ICE Detainee Death Reporting
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Wikipedia:United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Vera