The announcement by the United States that it’s cutting support to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s work to vaccinate children in lower-income countries, put a damper on the organization’s high-level pledging event last week in Brussels, Belgium. The U.S. provides the organization with about 13% of its funding — some $300 million annually.
“We are very hopeful that they will come back,” Dr. Sania Nishtar, Gavi’s chief executive officer, said during a Devex event on the sidelines of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4, in Sevilla, Spain.
Under the Biden administration, the U.S. pledged to provide at least $1.58 billion to support Gavi’s work from 2026 through 2030.