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Protect Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

The Administration announced its formal decision to end funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which provides access to lifesaving immunizations for children around the world. The U.S. has historically been a strong supporter of Gavi on a bipartisan basis, helping the Alliance save more than 18 million lives since 2000. Without this critical support, up to 75 million children could miss out on basic vaccines over the next 5 years.

Gavi has played a critical role integrating and scaling up the first-in-class malaria immunizations for children over the last year. These vaccines are an exciting new tool with enormous potential in terms of reducing childhood mortality, and next generation vaccines could transform the fight against this disease.

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World Refugee Day

A record number of people — over 122 million — have been forcibly displaced, according to new data shared by UNHCR. Even more devastating, UNHCR estimated that 12.8 million refugees — among them 6.3 million children — will lose life-saving health services in 2025 due to proposed funding cuts.

Together, with our sister campaign Shot@Life and our partner on the ground, we are delivering essential health services to one million refugee children in East Africa. The need to support refugees and displaced children has never been greater. Since the launch of our initiative last year, foreign aid freezes and budget cuts to humanitarian aid programs have severely affected public health and nutrition programs for refugees and host communities.

Your support makes a critical difference for refugee children. For example, Agnes has two sons, ages three months and 12- years- old. Agnes’s older son has had malaria many times. When she noticed her younger son showing similar symptoms like loss of appetite and fever, she walked 30 minutes from her home to the health facility where her three-month-old baby was tested and diagnosed with malaria.

After receiving treatment at the health facility, the baby boy is doing better at home with Agnes. Help us reach more refugee children, like Agnes’, with health services needed to ensure that they can grow up healthy.

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