Aid funding disrupts child vaccinations almost as much as pandemic, says UN


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

LONDON (Reuters) -Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever, have been increasing globally.

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