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R.F.K. Jr. Says U.S. Will Stop Funding Global Vaccine Agency
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, said the United States would not deliver on a $1.2 billion pledge made by the Biden administration until the organization changed its processes.
There’s much that I admire about Gavi, especially its commitment to making medicine affordable to all the world’s people. Gavi has done that part of its job very well. Unfortunately, in its zeal to promote universal vaccination, it has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety. When the science was inconvenient, Gavi ignored the science. I call on Gavi today to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion that America has provided in funding since 2001. And I’ll tell you how to start taking vaccine safety seriously. Consider the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms. Until that happens, the United States won’t contribute more to Gavi. Define success, not just in terms of the number of vaccines delivered, but on their rigorously measured overall impacts. Business as usual is over. Unaccountable and opaque policymaking is over.
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