IT can easily be used in the scientific and social growth we have given them. But sometimes we have to pause to celebrate – to feel real amazement – to the wonders we have seen. In the midst of all the wars, the disasters and crimes in the last half century, we have not witnessed a miracle.
Vaccination, in addition to clean water, hygiene and improved nutrition, is one of the greatest contributing to global health. It is responsible for most of the amazement -a wonderful fall in the child’s death, which fell 59% between 1990 and 2022. It saves more than 150 million lives, most infants, as the expanded vaccination program was launched by the World Health Organization in 1974. It was initially designed to protect children against diseases including smallpox, tuberculosis, polio and measles, the scheme was from expanded to cover more pathogens. Then, in 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), a public-private organization that provides financial and technical support for vaccinations in more difficult countries and communicates with manufacturers to lower the lower cost.
The results became noticeable. Avoiding is better – and cheaper and easier – than to cure. Sickpox was declared removed in 1980. Almost every world has no polio-free. Cases of many other diseases are damaged. There is more to do: approximately 5 million children are protected against malaria because routine vaccinations were launched a year ago. And from a scary perspective, we enter a golden age of vaccines.
However this is a dangerous moment in other ways. The climate crisis is the spurring disease outbreaks. The conflict has noted the number of unprotected children increased. The skepticism of the vaccine has grown. Now cutting the threat funding to restore the clock. USAID’s cracks will hinder delivery and stop a groundbreaking program to create new malaria vaccines. Robert F Kennedy JR – who once claimed that “no vaccine is safe and effective” and tried to encourage the US government to rescue permission for the coronavirus vaccine at the height of the pandemia – was confirmed this week as Secretary of Health .
Today the UK, one of Gavi’s founding donors and the country that has provided most of its major programs, considers a significant cut to its support. This would be a serious mistake. While some aspects of Gavi’s approach have faced reasonable investigations in the past, it has vaccinated more than 1 billion children and has been able to effectively: 97 pence per thousand it provides continues vaccine programs. Its success is also evident in the number of countries that end up being beneficiaries in paying their own way; Some, including Indonesia, become a donor. And Gavi’s stockpiles help to keep people safe in wealthy countries, as well as ensuring that more difficult countries are healthier and more stable.
For all of these reasons, Gavi has long enjoyed Bipartisan support in the UK, which has given it more than £ 2BN in the last four years. Now, more than ever, its funding should be maintained. The world is full of seemingly inevitable conflicts and complex moral dilemmas. Some decisions are truly simple for governments. But this one is a no-brainer. It should wonder us that we can easily save lives. It should be clear to ourselves that we should continue to occupy that opportunity.
