Aid Cuts Disrupting Childhood Vaccination Efforts, UN Says

Reuters (4/23, Rigby) reports global aid funding cuts are harming “efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday.” Despite a global increase in “outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever,” emergency and routine vaccinations “were significantly affected in nearly half of countries at the start of April due to the funding cuts, according to reports from World Health Organization offices in 108 largely low and lower-middle income countries.”