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US has slashed global vaccine funding – if philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offs

  • Written by Amy E. Stambach, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
US has slashed global vaccine funding – if philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offsBill Gates gives a baby in a woman's arms a rotavirus vaccine in Ghana in 2013.Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. government is relaxing federal vaccine requirements and cutting vaccine research and development funding here at home. Elsewhere, it’s going even further.

The Trump administration has stopped funding Gavi, a global...

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