On Wednesday, RFK Jr announced the US would stop funding the global vaccine alliance, Gavi, because he claimed that “when the ...

The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, ...

LONDON — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi ...

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children’s lives a year, and RFK Jr. will be personally responsible,” said Atal Gawande.

The problem was evident in overall immunization rates for a series of recommended vaccines — including the "DTaP" vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis and the "MMR" vaccine to prevent ...

Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, ...

Elimination of Polio in 2014 and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus in 2015, and the recent launch of the Measles Rubella campaign ...

Required vaccines include diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP), polio ... The typical target range for vaccine coverage is 95%, and both the county and state are currently below that threshold.

The percentage of kids getting the measles vaccine also jumped from 37% to 83%, with similar increases for polio and tuberculosis. But after the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage rates dropped, with an ...