Trump Administration To Cut Vaccine Support To Developing Countries: Report

Source: International Business Times

Health worker tries to immunise a child during a vaccination campaign against polio at Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano in northwest Nigeria AFP President Donald Trump's administration is set to cut funding to Gavi, the global health organization that provides vaccines across the developing world, a report said Wednesday. The decision was included in a 281-page spreadsheet that the severely downsized United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sent to Congress on Monday night. The document details which grants the agency intends to continue and which it will terminate, according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy.