Dear HIFA and CHIFA colleagues,
With thanks to Global Health Now:
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Vaccine-preventable diseases are thriving in a global environment of health funding cuts, misinformation, and humanitarian crises, UN agencies and others are warning during World Immunization Week.
• The UN reports that global aid funding cuts are upending vaccination efforts almost as much as the pandemic did, per Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/aid-funding-...
• The cuts are “severely limiting” UNICEF’s efforts to vaccinate 15 million children against measles.
Latest cut: The Global Vaccine Data Network, which has done the largest safety studies of COVID-19 vaccines, was terminated 13 months short of its end date by the U.S., The Guardian reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/24/global-covid-vaccine-dat...
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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org