{"id":29012,"date":"2025-06-04T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29012"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:23:03","slug":"trump-budget-eliminates-funding-for-crucial-global-vaccination-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29012","title":{"rendered":"Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, \u201cdo not make Americans safer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year eliminates funding for programs that provide lifesaving vaccines around the world, including immunizations for polio.<\/p>\n

The budget<\/a>, submitted to Congress last week, proposes to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s global health unit, effectively shutting down its $230 million immunization program: $180 million for polio eradication and the rest for measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases. The budget plan also withdraws financial support for Gavi, the international vaccine alliance that purchases vaccines for children in developing countries.<\/p>\n

Overall, the budget request explicitly follows President Trump\u2019s America First policy, slashing funds for global health programs that fight H.I.V. and malaria, and cutting support altogether to fight diseases that affect only poorer countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe request eliminates funding for programs that do not make Americans safer, such as family planning and reproductive health, neglected tropical diseases, and nonemergency nutrition,\u201d the proposal said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Many public health experts said that such thinking is flawed because infectious diseases routinely breach borders. The United States is battling multiple measles outbreaks, prompting the C.D.C. last week to warn travelers<\/a> about the risks of contracting measles. Each of those outbreaks began with a case of measles contracted by an international traveler.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single measles case this year is related to actual importations of the virus into the United States,\u201d said Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a former director of the United States\u2019 Immunization Program.<\/p>\n

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The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, \u201cdo not make Americans safer.\u201dThe Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year eliminates funding for programs that provide lifesaving vaccines around the world, including immunizations for polio.The budget, submitted to Congress last week, proposes to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s global health unit, effectively shutting down its $230 million immunization program: $180 million for polio eradication and the rest for measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases. The budget plan also withdraws financial support for Gavi, the international vaccine alliance that purchases vaccines for children in developing countries.Overall, the budget request explicitly follows President Trump\u2019s America First policy, slashing funds for global health programs that fight H.I.V. and malaria, and cutting support altogether to fight diseases that affect only poorer countries.\u201cThe request eliminates funding for programs that do not make Americans safer, such as family planning and reproductive health, neglected tropical diseases, and nonemergency nutrition,\u201d the proposal said.Many public health experts said that such thinking is flawed because infectious diseases routinely breach borders. The United States is battling multiple measles outbreaks, prompting the C.D.C. last week to warn travelers about the risks of contracting measles. Each of those outbreaks began with a case of measles contracted by an international traveler.\u201cEvery single measles case this year is related to actual importations of the virus into the United States,\u201d said Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a former director of the United States\u2019 Immunization Program.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29014,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29015,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29012\/revisions\/29015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}