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Bill Gates Warns Of 'Perilous' Times After Trump Administration Pulls Funding From Gavi, A Group That Has Paid For Over A Billion Children's Vaccinations: 'All The Progress We've Made Is At Risk'

This week, on multiple occasions, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern over the future of global health, warning that recent cuts to funding for Gavi could undo decades of progress in saving children’s lives through vaccinations.

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RFK Junior is stoking fears about vaccine safety. Here’s why he’s wrong – and the impact it could have

The United States used to be a leader in vaccine research, development and policymaking. Now US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr is undermining the country’s vaccine program at the highest level and supercharging vaccine skepticism.

The Conversation

RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say

US health secretary says US will decline to renew funding for Gavi, a partnership that works to provide vaccines for poorest countries

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Europe leads global vaccine effort as US pulls back

While the EU and several European countries made significant contributions to GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, the United States was notably absent from the donor list.

Euronews

US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has 'ignored the science'

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The Independent UK

US halts funding to global group that provides vaccines to low-income countries

GAVI said it has raised €7.9 billion toward a €10.5 billion goal to fund its work over the next five years.

Euronews

RFK Jr. threatens to tank 500 million childhood vaccinations unless health leaders prove themselves

He is ready to endanger the future of America.

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US to stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says

The announcement from Robert F Kennedy Jr comes as his controversial CDC vaccine panel meets for the first time.

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Starmer’s foreign aid cuts will lead to extra 365,000 deaths, campaigners warn

The ONE Campaign warned a reduction in funding will see 23 million fewer children receive vaccinations

The Independent UK

UK pledge to global vaccine effort falls £400m to £1.25bn amid raft of aid cuts

Campaigners warn reduction could cost lives – even if Britain remains of the largest donors to the international Gavi alliance

The Independent UK

Scientists criticise cut in UK funding for global vaccination group

Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countries

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners welcome vaccine cash pledge but fear cut will see fewer lives saved

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the funds at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.

The Independent UK

Vaccine pact, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' editor-in-chief, EU news, Jeremy Fleming-Jones.

Euronews

Cuts to UK’s global vaccination funding would risk avoidable child deaths, experts warn

Exclusive: Scientists also say any reduction in Foreign Office funding for vaccine alliance Gavi would harm UK’s soft power

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Diminished UK aid budget is ‘new normal’, says development minister

Jenny Chapman says the government is not treating reduction in spending on overseas aid to 0.3% as temporary

The Independent UK

The Gates Foundation’s first 25 years: How it changed global health and philanthropy

In its first 25 years, the Gates Foundation became one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and one of the most powerful institutions in global health

Evening Standard

UK aid cuts to vaccines could lead to half a million child deaths, MPs warned

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis asked Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty how he “lives with himself”.

The Independent UK

Vaccines group Gavi says U.S. has not confirmed it will end funding

The head of leading vaccines group Gavi alliance says it has not received confirmation from the U.S. government that it might be losing more than $1 billion in pledged funding as part of a reported proposal by U.S. authorities to cut support for international aid groups

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Trump Administration To Cut Vaccine Support To Developing Countries: Report

President Donald Trump's administration is set to cut funding to Gavi, the global health organization that provides vaccines across the developing world, a report said Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Cuts to UK vaccine funding could lead to ‘huge numbers’ of child deaths overseas

Exclusive: Hundreds of thousands of world’s poorest children could die if aid programme slashed, experts warn

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on supporting vaccines: humans can work miracles – so why wouldn’t we?

Editorial: Global immunisation programmes are under risk as the US slashes its aid programme and the UK considers cutting funding

The Guardian - UK

Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

The number of cases globally has surged since 2021, as war and the climate crisis pile pressure on vaccine supplies

The Guardian - UK

Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi

Exclusive: Aid charities alarmed as decision would come in wake of Donald Trump’s decision to freeze USAid activities

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Sierra Leone Launches Nationwide Ebola Vaccine Campaign

Sierra Leone launches nationwide Ebola vaccine campaign targeting 20,000 frontline workers after devastating 2014 outbreak.

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Sierra Leone begins nationwide rollout of Ebola vaccine a decade after deadly outbreak

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine

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