by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. at the Defender
The Gates Foundation said Tuesday it will pledge $1.6 billion over the next five years to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a global public-private partnership that promotes childhood vaccination in the world’s poorest countries.
In the foundation’s statement, Gates warned that recent cuts to Gavi’s funding place global public health at risk. He wrote:
“For the first time in decades, the number of kids dying around the world will likely go up this year instead of down because of massive cuts to foreign aid. That is a tragedy. … Fully funding Gavi is the single most powerful step we can take to stop it.”
However, Seamus Bruner, author of “Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life,” said the Gates Foundation’s latest funding commitment has less to do with protecting global public health and more to do with increasing Gates’ global influence.
“The Gates Foundation’s $1.6 billion pledge, timed in response to the Trump administration’s cuts to the WHO [World Health Organization] and Gavi, looks less like charity and more like a much needed cash infusion to prop up this public-private pro-vax hybrid where Controligarchs like Gates have more influence over how, when and to whom so-called vaccines are deployed,” Bruner said.
The foundation’s commitment comes amid an ongoing fundraising push by Gavi, capped off by today’s Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunisation fundraising event in Brussels, Belgium. The Gates Foundation and the European Union (EU) hosted the event.
Gavi seeks to raise $9 billion in pledges, as part of an “ambitious strategy to protect 500 million children” and save “at least 8 million lives from 2026-2030.” The funding will be used to protect against “the threat of pandemics” and “climate change and other global challenges.”
Pledges also will contribute to Gavi’s “Day Zero Financing Facility for Pandemics,” to support “a rapid vaccine response during major public health emergencies” and investments in emergency vaccine stockpiles.
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