GENEVA (AN) — Global health leaders say U.S. plans to terminate financial support for an organization that provides vaccines to the world's poorest countries would have disastrous consequences for millions of children.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, says it helped vaccinate over 1 billion children in the past 25 years, preventing over 17.3 million deaths. In the next 5 years it plans on protecting at least 500 million children from tuberculosis, malaria and other preventable diseases, and saving 8-9 million more lives.
