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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the U.S. government will no longer make financial contributions to Gavi, the leading global organization on vaccination, reported Fierce Healthcare.
In recorded remarks sent to a Gavi's global summit, RFK Jr. said he supports the organizations' broader efforts to address the affordability of healthcare but that it has "neglected the key issue of vaccine safety" and "ignored the science" on vaccines when it's inconvenient.
"When vaccine safety issues have come before Gavi, Gavi has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem," RFK Jr. said in the video, which was first made public by The New York Times.
RFK Jr. said the U.S. may resume financial contributions to Gavi if the organization can justify the $8 billion in funding the country has sent since 2001 and take steps to "re-earn the public's trust."
