US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country pulls its support from the vaccine Allianz GaviAnd said the organization “ignored science” and “lost public trust”.
A video of Kennedy’s speech was shown to the participants of a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, in which the vaccine group wanted to collect at least 9 billion US dollars over the next five years.
Gavi is a public-private partnership, including the WHO, Unicef, Gates Foundation and the World Bank. It paid more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated Through routine immunization programs that save an estimated 18 million lives. The United States was one of the biggest supporters for a long time. Before Trump’s re -election, the country had promised $ 1 billion by 2030.
Kennedy urged Gavi to “recover public trust and to justify the $ 8 billion that America has provided in the funds since 2001”. Officials must “consider the best available science, even if this science contradicts established paradigms”. Kennedy said until this happens, the United States will not contribute to Gavi.
Kennedy, a long-time vaccination skeptic, said that he and President Trump were concerned about how Gavi and the World Health Organization had worked together during the Covid 19 pandemic to work with social media companies, “at a time when many people had questions about the safety of vaccines, to silence deviating views and legitimate questions.
kennedy Said Gavi continues to emit “questionable recommendations” on how to advise the pregnant women to be immunized against Covid-13 and to finance the introduction of a vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in poorer countries.
WHO and other health authorities have recommended that pregnant women to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and explained that they are a higher risk of serious illnesses.
Kennedy said he saw research that came to the conclusion that young girls against Diphtherie, Tetanus and Pertussis vaccinated, more often from all other causes than children who were not immunized.
Said gavi in a opinion Thursday that the “greatest concern is the health and security of children”. The organization said that every decision that she buys for vaccines should be made in accordance with the recommendations of the WHO expert group.
“This ensures that Gavi investments are based on the best available priorities of science and public health,” it said. Gavi said that scientists had checked all available data, including all studies that pronounced concerns, and that the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine “played a key role in the support of half of the child mortality”.
The British government said on Wednesday that it would give Gavi £ 1.25 billion ($ 1.7 billion) between 2026 and 2030. It said that the money would help gavi protect up to 500 million children from diseases such as meningitis, cholera and measles in some of the poorest countries in the world.
