Johannesburg – Every four years representatives of the global alliance of governments, producers of pharmaceuticals, United Nations agencies and charities known as HeeWhat helps to get vaccines to people who need them are encountered to fix new funding promises. Just as this year in Brussels on Wednesday, US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy -Jelling announced that all financing from Washington would stop.
In three and a half minutes a video message that Kennedy general on social networksHe said the Trump administration stopped financing the organization as it “took the key issue of the vaccine security.”
Kennedy, who sought to get away from the “anti-vaccine” label, has a history of creation Deceptive statements about Vaccine safety and was tied to A group anti-vaccine.
Hee speak This helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 low income countries and prevented more than 18.8 million deaths after creating 25 years ago. Its attention is to get vaccines, especially new vaccines, for the population that would fight them or access them differently.
Kennedy claimed in the video that Gavi “neglected the key issue of the vaccine safety” and that “when the vaccine security problems arose before Gavi, Gavi considered them not as a patient's health problem, but as public relations problems.”
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Kennedy has accused Gavi of ignoring science and said the alliance should “justify $ 8 billion who have given it since 2001.”
The United States has long been among the leading state -owned Gavi financing participants, which also comes from private organizations.
Biden's administration was owed by 1.6 billion dollars of financing For the organization from 2026 to 2030, the amount, approximately equal to the financing, laid down by the private gates fund – and shock and indignation, which was converted at the conference in Brussels after Kennedy announced.
Bill Gates, co -founder Microsoft and Foundation Gates, said on social networks that this step would be “devastating”. He called on the US Congress to maintain Gavi funding, warning that if he does not do it, “more sick children are lagging at school,” and “will” more crowded wards in the hospital and ultimately more vague parents. “
“If Congress allows this, the consequences will be devastating,” Gates Mark Susman's CEO – Note. “Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will prevent death, especially among mothers and children.”
Dr. Atuli Golando, public health researcher and surgeon at the brigade and women's hospital in Boston, who previously held a place on the Havia Board, – Note Kennedy will bring personal responsibility for the results of the termination of government financing, which he called “travesty and nightmare”.
“I would like to count on significant changes and reduction of access to safe and effective vaccines for children, in the poorest and most vulnerable countries,” one American official with decades of health care programs and vaccination told CBS News about the state of anonymity. “Kennedy's rhetoric is not useful and, most likely, fueled the guessing in the minds of people around the world, where we will definitely now see more uncontrollable outbreaks that cause the vaccine. It is very sorry.”
The UN World Health Organization has warned since 2019 This vaccine is hesitant and distrust – one of the leading threats for global public health.
The purpose of this year's conference was to provide financing to achieve the organization of over 90% of global lighting with the necessary vaccines for a wide range of diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and measles. On Wednesday, Gavi received more than $ 9 billion for financing, but hoped to receive $ 11.9 billion over the next five years to cut $ 500 million worldwide.
Other countries have recognized the importance of Gavi and increased their contributions at Wednesday conference.
The management of this list was the UK
British Foreign Minister David Lami announced $ 1.7 billion for the next five years, making the new largest Gava donor.
Ghana President John Damar Maham, who spoke at the Hawi conference on Wednesday, began with the details of the younger brother's fight with polio, and a stigma associated with a disease that has virtually eradicated through the world due to vaccination programs launched in the late 1980s.
“I understand the importance of vaccines,” said the delegation Maham.
When his brother was diagnosed, access to the vaccine in Ghana was close to zero, but the president said that, thanks to a partnership with Gavi, 97% of the population was now vaccinated.
He said the officials still were still working to reach the last 3% – about “65,000 children in remote areas, it is difficult to achieve vaccines” – and that Ghana planned no longer needed to support Gavi by 2030.
Maham completed his statements with an actual comparison, saying: “One B-2 Spirit Bomber, which dropped bombs on Iran, cost $ 2.13 billion,” and what he did, adding: “Probably the world can afford the cost of four B-2 bombers to save 500 million children.”