What happens when you add health fuding cuts, misinformation, and humanitarian crises?
A perfect storm in which vaccine-preventable diseases can thrive.
Reuters: the UN reports global aid funding cuts are upending vaccination efforts almost as much as the pandemic did. These cuts are “severely limiting” UNICEF’s work to vaccinate 15 million children against measels.
Guardian: the Global Vaccine Data Network – which has done the largest safety studies of COVID-19 vaccines – was terminated about 13 months short of its end date.
- Mealses topped 10.3 million cases in 2023 (a 20% increase over 2022)
- Measles in the last 12 months: 138 countries, 61 with large/disruptive outbreaks (highest number observed in a 12 month period since 2019)
- 5,500 cases of meningitis have been reported in 22 countries in the first three months of 2025;
- The America’s region has seen 131 cases of yellow fever in four countries in 2025
- 2023: ~14.5 million children missed all their routine vaccines (13.9 M in 2022, 12.9 M in 2019) – over half of these children live in countries facing conflict, fragility, or instability