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HISTORICAL FACTS: Gavi - Caught on Camera

The new malaria vaccine helps in Africa but faces a test: Completing all 4 doses

A recently introduced malaria vaccine is helping reduce severe illness in children across Africa

The Independent UK

‘Flesh-eating bacteria’ spreading along European beaches in heat, experts warn

The rare bacteria can impact people through raw or undercooked seafood or through contact with open wounds

The Independent UK

Ebola and hantavirus have Africa talking 'health sovereignty' as donor support fades

A new Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is highlighting Africa's struggle with reduced international aid

The Independent UK

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Child vaccine catch-up drive on course to hit target, says UN

A three-year effort to immunise children who missed routine vaccinations due to the Covid-19 crisis is on course to reach the 21 million target, the United Nations has said.

Radio France Internationale

UK climate aid cuts ‘short-sighted’ and leave ‘fossil fuel profits untouched’, campaigners say

‘Cutting this budget at a time of such intense global upheaval goes against the warnings from the government's own national security advisers and food experts’

The Independent UK

WHO announces restart of preventive cholera vaccinations after nearly 4-year halt

The World Health Organization has announced the restart of preventive cholera vaccination programs globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage

The Independent UK

A girls’ soccer tournament drives HPV vaccine awareness in Zimbabwe

For a young girl, losing the soccer final 5-0 meant little compared to the goals of a tournament held in Zimbabwe to promote trust in cervical cancer vaccination

The Independent UK

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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives

From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates says a ‘doomsday’ outlook on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things

“If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, I’ll let the temperature go up,” Gates said.

Fortune

Future pandemics are a 'certainty' — and we must be better prepared to distribute vaccines equitably, says Dr. Seth Berkley

Months before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, efforts were already underway to ensure low-income countries would get access to future vaccines against the infection. The book "Fair Doses" tells that story and discusses the ongoing fight for vaccine equity around the world.

LiveScience

'This is a completely different level of anti-vaccine engagement than we've ever seen before,' says epidemiologist Dr. Seth Berkley

Epidemiologist Dr. Seth Berkley spoke to Live Science about the importance of vaccine equity and the obstacles undermining it, as well as the political challenges to vaccines being raised in the U.S.

LiveScience

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but he thinks scientific innovation will curb it

The Independent UK

Australia must ‘step up to prevent catastrophic and preventable loss of life’ amid Trump cuts, former CDC boss says

Dr Tom Frieden served as director of the US health body under Barack Obama until 2017 and warns about cuts under Donald Trump

The Guardian - AU

'Millions of Children Are at Risk of Dying': Bill Gates's Dire Warning as He Pledges a Bombshell $912 Million to Fight Killer Diseases

Bill Gates has pledged $912 million to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, warning that cuts in global aid threaten to undo decades of progress in reducing child mortality.

International Business Times UK

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The Conversation

US has slashed global vaccine funding – if philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offs

The U.S. government is relaxing federal vaccine requirements and cutting vaccine research and development funding here at home. Elsewhere, it’s going even further.

The Conversation

Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it

Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s…

The Independent UK

UK admits foreign aid cuts could see deaths rise – with Africa hit hardest

The government’s own impact assessment warns that cuts to projects will likely increase death and disease

Evening Standard

Funding for some aid organisations and countries to be cut, minister says

The minister for development said the Government is ‘modernising’ its approach.

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Euronews

'Donor fatigue' demands smarter global aid spending, says Barroso

As traditional donors retreat, attention is turning to emerging contributors such as Brazil, India and private sector partners to help fill the gap.

Benzinga

Bill Gates Warns US Aid Cuts Could Kill Millions Of Children, End HIV Programs, Leave 75 Million Unvaccinated: 'Devastating' Lancet Study, Gavi, UNAIDS Sound Alarm

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates warned on Thursday that U.S. foreign aid cuts could trigger a catastrophic global health crisis, citing new research projecting millions of additional deaths by 2040.

Benzinga

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.

The Conversation

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 Guardian - US

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

Euronews

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.

The Independent UK

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

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