U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the organization has “ignored the science" and “lost the public trust.”

The UK has confirmed its support for global vaccination by pledging £1.25bn to global vaccine group Gavi while the US will halt funding to the international organisation. A provider of free jabs for meningitis,

Gavi is a public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and the World Bank. It has paid for more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated through routine immunisation programmes,