The Pandemic Fund was set up in the wake of the Covid-19 emergency as the world recognised we are dangerously unprepared for the next big global health threat – and it boasted enthusiastic support from the UK. No longer.
Similarly, our country proudly funded the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which is winning the war to stamp out a devastating disease that paralyses children. Now that money will stop, even as record-low vaccination rates here put our own youngsters at risk.
