Blocking $600 Million in Global Vaccine Funding Is a Grave Misstep

Vaccination gaps abroad do not remain localBoghuma K. Titanji, MD, MSc, DTM&H, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. I was born in Cameroon in the 1980s. Like millions of children in similar settings, survival into adulthood was not guaranteed. But the launch of Gavi at the turn of the century had a measurable effect on reducing child mortality across dozens of low-income countries. Over the last two decades, Gavi has supported the immunization of 1.2 billion children and prevented more than 20 million deaths through its work to address the persistent...