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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi

A child receives a dose of polio vaccine in Ghana
A child receives a dose of polio vaccine in Ghana. Gavi’s data shows it has vaccinated more than 1.1 billion children over 25 years. Photograph: Olivier Asselin/Alamy

The UK is poised to cut funding to a global vaccination group that has inoculated more than a billion children in developing countries, a move aid groups say would be counterproductive and cost lives.

The expected decision is causing particular alarm given that it would come immediately after Donald Trump effectively shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAid), halting much of its own vaccination work.

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