The United Nations said on Thursday that global assistance funding deduction under the United States leadership is disrupting children’s efforts to vaccinate against deadly diseases, which is against almost as much fatal diseases.
Outbreaks of infectious diseases including measles, meningitis and yellow fever are increasing globally.
According to reports from the offices of the World Health Organization, emergency and regular immunizations in about half of the April countries were greatly affected in about half of the April, which are in 108 large-scale low and low-middle-income countries.
Funding cuts also reduced the supply of vaccine and obstructed the disease monitoring, WHO and UNICEF said in a joint release with Gavi, Vaccine Alliance.
Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, said, “Failures (are) at the same level of what we saw during COVID -19.
The joint release stated that Covid-19 called the largest backslide in a generation of childhood vaccinations, and aid was cut for assistance under the leadership of the US-the world’s largest donor-nea in the east risk the same result.
He called for funding for funding for childhood vaccination before Gavi’s funding round, which will be launched in June. The group is demanding $ 9 billion for its work by 2026-2030.
Gavi’s Chief Executive Officer Sania Nishtar said that it was possible to fight the rise of infectious diseases, but only when the group is fully funded.
The agencies said that there has been an increase in measles cases since 2021 since 2021, whereas in Africa last year, meningitis has increased and yellow fever cases had also increased since the decline in the last decade.
Last month, an internal US government document revealed that he would follow his deduction to UNICEF and WHO is part of comprehensive plans, which to streamline foreign aids and focus on foreign aids to align with “America First” policy, by canceling his contribution of $ 300 million annually.
Last week, the US State Department told Reuters that it had nominated Gavi’s 28-Power Board as Global Health Assistant Administrator Mark Lloyd. The American seat was first vacant.
Both the US State Department and Gavi refused to comment on what it could mean for American funding.
