HHS pulls funding from Gates-backed vaccine group
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced on Wednesday he is pulling funding from Gavi, a global organization dedicated to pushing vaccines worldwide.
Gavi is a public-private alliance that boasts it has vaccinated more than half the world’s children. It includes governmental bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Union, UNICEF, and the World Bank, along with private organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation is a founding member of Gavi and remains its largest private donor. On Tuesday, the foundation pledged an additional $1.6 billion to Gavi over the next five years, claiming that the loss of foreign aid will cause more children to die.
Gavi ‘ignored the science’ and helped ‘stifle free speech’
But Kennedy appears to believe the opposite, saying in a video on Wednesday that Gavi has ignored science and even colluded with the WHO to censor those who question the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
“When the science was inconvenient, Gavi ignored the science,” said Kennedy, who also accused Gavi of recommending “best practices for social media companies to silence dissenting views, to stifle free speech and legitimate questions during [the COVID-19] period.”
Although the COVID-19 mRNA shots have been strongly condemned by independent doctors for their dangerous side effects, Gavi continues to aggressively promote the shots worldwide. The Gates Foundation alone has contributed $236.2 million to Gavi’s COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) program, which focuses on distributing COVID-19 injections.
“I call on Gavi today to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion that America has provided in funding since 2001,” the HHS secretary continued. “And I’ll tell you how to start taking vaccine safety seriously: Consider the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms. Until that happens, the United States won’t contribute more to Gavi.”
‘Business as usual is over’
US contributions to Gavi have totaled roughly $300 million a year. The organization is holding a pledging summit in Brussels this week, hoping to raise $9 billion over the next five years. Gavi CEO Sania Nishtar has warned that the loss of US funding will cause the deaths of 1.2 million children by 2030.
“When vaccine safety issues have come before Gavi, Gavi has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem,” Kennedy said. “Business as usual is over, unaccountable and opaque policymaking is over. I invite all of you to join us in a new era of evidence-based medicine, old-standard science and integrity.”
Kennedy has written extensively about Gates’ profitable vaccine operation in his 2023 book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. He has repeatedly criticized Gates for investing heavily in vaccines and then partnering with organizations like the WHO and Gavi to ensure those vaccines flood the global market.
