Murder Without the Mystery

“The United States won’t contribute anymore to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global health organization has ‘re-earned the public trust,’ U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday.” As Atul Gawande explains: “This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of Gavi. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children’s lives a year – and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.”

+ NYT (Gift Article): Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support. “There is more potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say. But now, H.I.V. programs across Africa are scrambling to procure drugs that the United States once supplied, replace lost nurses and lab technicians, and restart shuttered programs to prevent new infections. ‘We imagined we would be in a different world right now,'” (Editor’s note: Same.)