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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme

A group of mothers holding small children
Mothers and children wait to receive a shot of a malaria vaccine a part of a pilot program in Gisambai, Kenya, 7 March 2023. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

A flagship programme to create malaria vaccines has been halted by the Trump administration, in just one example of a rippling disruption to health research around the globe since the new US president took power.

The USAid Malaria Vaccine Development Program (MVDP) – which works to prevent child deaths by creating more effective second-generation vaccines – funds research by teams collaborating across institutes, including the US university Johns Hopkins and the UK’s University of Oxford.

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