Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid for global vaccines are at risk of expiring in just a few months—thanks to an unprecedented intervention by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The famously anti-vaccine head of the U.S. domestic health agency has inserted himself into the aid disbursement process, despite having no legal authority to do so. Now, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance—which provides vaccines to low-income countries for child immunization campaigns—is facing a critical funding shortfall that it says could result in the deaths of more than 1 million children.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid for global vaccines are at risk of expiring in just a few months—thanks to an unprecedented intervention by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The famously anti-vaccine head of the U.S. domestic health agency has inserted himself into the aid disbursement process, despite having no legal authority to do so. Now, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance—which provides vaccines to low-income countries for child immunization campaigns—is facing a critical funding shortfall that it says could result in the deaths of more than 1 million children.
