RFK Jr. Withdraws U.S. Funding from Gavi Over Vaccine-Safety Concerns : Sheryl Gay Stolberg / NYTimes

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Another bomb launched through Bobby Junior. GAVI is today's target.

Without GAVI there would have been zero doses of the Pfizer or Moderna covid vaccines distributed to low income countries. GAVI invented the predevelopment procurement process and established the funding that enabled companies like Pfizer and Moderna to have assurances to bring that vaccine to market. That process took years of careful work to establish and finance. It involved at least twenty major ministries of finance, and several bond markets.

There is a vindictiveness to these surprise announcements that create long lasting damage to the integrity of the USA. GAVI won't die from the US cut. But, trust and reputation are hard to recover.

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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the agency, Gavi, had "ignored the science" in immunizing children around the world.

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Summary
In a video address at a Gavi fundraising summit in Brussels on June 25, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the immediate withdrawal of U.S. funding from Gavi, the global vaccine alliance. He justified the decision by accusing the alliance of neglecting vaccine safety—especially during the COVID‑19 pandemic—and urged Gavi to “re‑earn the public trust.” Kennedy said the U.S. has provided about $8 billion since 2001 and that funding will remain suspended unless Gavi “considers the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms.”

Quotes
• “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 since 2001.”
• “Until that happens, the United States won’t contribute more to Gavi.”