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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Kat Lay Global health correspondent

RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say

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Robert F Kennedy Jr on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on 24 June 2025. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Robert F Kennedy Jr will be “personally responsible” for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children after he refused to renew US funding for a global vaccines body, public health experts said.

The US health secretary said Wednesday that the United States would halt funding for Gavi, the vaccine alliance that has immunised more than one billion children since 2000, in a statement that has also been criticised for spreading disinformation on vaccine safety.

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