Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that he plans to cut a wealth of U.S. funding to Gavi, an international vaccine alliance that seeks to immunize the world’s poorest communities. During a video message at the Gavi fundraising event in Brussels,

Global vaccine group Gavi has secured $9 billion for its work over the next five years helping to immunize the world's poorest children, its board chair, Jose Manuel Barroso, said on Wednesday. The group announced the total at the end of a fundraising summit in Brussels.

The U.S. will no longer contribute funding to Gavi, a global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s poorest children because it ignores safety, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said today.