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June 2025

Funding Gavi’s Next 5 Years

Gavi’s high-level pledging summit, currently underway in Brussels, is a reminder that in an ever-uncertain global health landscape, immunization efforts remain steadfast.

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June 2025

The Silent Emergency of Rising Displacement

123.2 million people were forced to flee their home in 2024—that’s one in every 67 people on earth. This World Refugee Day, we are reminded of the urgent need to support forcibly displaced populations among surging conflict and health crises.

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June 2025

An Opportunity to Commit to Disease Elimination

The President's Budget Request for FY26 cuts overall global health spending while prioritizing polio and malaria. We can make historic progress against these diseases, but only if U.S. and multilateral programs are fully funded.

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May 2025

The 78th World Health Assembly

The World Health Assembly just wrapped and once again, it was a big year for immunization. Here’s what you need to know.

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May 2025

Advocate to Vaccinate 2025 Roundup

In the midst of a rapidly changing global health landscape, we have reached the end of another successful Advocate to Vaccinate. Over the last six weeks, Shot@Life Champions mobilized in all 50 states to advocate for lifesaving global immunization programs to their policymakers.

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May 2025

Vaccines: The Best Investment to Save Lives

Investing in vaccine programs creates immeasurable returns—from economic prosperity to decreased mortality rates. In this blog, Wajiha Mekki delves into immunization's return on investment and the advocacy efforts needed to get there.

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April 2025

The Power of Collaboration: World Immunization Week 2025

Today kicks off World Immunization Week, a reminder of our progress and the road ahead in global immunization.

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April 2025

Overcoming the Overlooked: The Role of Nomadic Communities in Polio Eradication

Despite global progress against polio, challenges remain, especially in reaching Afghanistan’s Kuchi (Kochi) nomads, a historically underserved population.

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March 2025

Shot@Life Campaign Urges Congress to Continue Funding Lifesaving Global Vaccination Programs 

Shot@Life Senior Director Cara Ciullo released the following statement on the proposed withdrawal of U.S. support for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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March 2025

Lobbying on Capitol Hill Taught Me the Power of Showing Up

In the middle of midterm exams, College Ambassador Rani Chor came to D.C. to advocate for global immunization programs with Shot@Life. Here's her perspective on why advocacy is more important than ever.

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From extreme winter cold spells impacting food security in Mongolia to dramatically increased rainfall triggering disease outbreaks in the Caribbean, the climate is forcibly recalibrating our approach to health.
 
And, on the flip side, health is becoming an entry point for conversations around climate change.
 
Initiatives like the ongoing collaboration between the World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization (WHO-WMO) aim to “turn climate intelligence into health intelligence,” touching everything from disease transmission to vaccine mobilization.
Over 18 million lives have already been saved—but millions of children remain unprotected.
 
The question of another global disease outbreak is “when,” not “if.” Pandemic preparedness and response is more vital than ever before. @gavialliance’s health system strengthening and stockpiles of emergency vaccines are critical to these preparation efforts.
 
The high-level funding summit for Gavi’s next strategic period has now come to a close. Despite many record-breaking pledges, U.S. funding remains shrouded in uncertainty.
 
Tell Congress to fund Gavi at the link in our bio.
Yesterday, the Administration announced its decision to end funding for @gavialliance, which provides lifesaving immunizations for children around the world.
 
The U.S. has historically been a strong supporter of Gavi on a bipartisan basis. Without this critical support, up to 75 million children could miss out on basic vaccines over the next 5 years.
 
Tell Congress using the link in bio.
Today’s the day! World leaders are currently meeting in Belgium to fund Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s next five years, with a plan to save at least 8 million lives from 2026-2030.
 
Gavi’s new investment opportunity places an emphasis on strengthening health systems and increasing equitable immunization to reduce the number of ‘zero-dose’ children in the world by 50% by 2030.
 
To learn more about Gavi’s next 5 years and the increasing need for multilateral cooperation in global health, check out our latest blog (link in bio).
Tomorrow, world leaders will gather to invest in immunization efforts and help shape the future of global health at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s high-level pledging summit.
 
Gavi seeks to raise at least $9 billion to fund an ambitious strategy of protecting 500 million children from the threat of disease.
 
Gavi’s unique sustainable financing model centers on co-financing; countries gradually increase their financial contribution to vaccine programs over time, eventually leading to full self-financing. 19 countries to date have “graduated” out of Gavi support since the start of the organization.
 
Stay tuned for more on Gavi 6.0 among the ongoing conversations #ForOurFuture.
All children deserve to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful for the future, no matter where they are.
 
It’s #WorldRefugeeDay.
 
Since the launch of #HealthyStart for Refugee Children last summer, public health and nutrition programs for refugees and host communities have been severely impacted.
 
We need your help reaching one million refugee children in East Africa with lifesaving health services—the need to support refugees and displaced children has never been greater.
 
www.shotatlife.org/healthystart
Every child deserves a childhood, yet an alarming percentage of those forced to flee are children.
 
Some had to part with their parents.

Some lost loved ones.

Some don’t even remember their homes.
Refugee and displaced children who were forced to flee deserve better than today’s #GlobalTrends of conflicts and displacement.
 
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Today, 1 in every 67 people on the planet is forcibly displaced.
 
Fleeing to save your life is an extremely hard choice.
 
But helping is NOT.
 
Join us in helping to reach one million refugee and displaced children in East Africa with lifesaving health services at shotatlife.org/healthystart. 
 
And for more on #GlobalTrends among refugees and IDPs, visit unhcr.org/global-trends
Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and Dengue are spreading around the world and creeping across U.S. borders.

In many countries, this phenomenon is only going to escalate. Summer marks the start of the rainy season in Sub-Saharan Africa, the peak time for malaria transmission.

Scientists are working rigorously on new vaccines against Dengue, and malaria vaccines are continuously being implemented across the African continent. But these efforts are threatened by shifts in foreign aid funding.

Raise your voice: shotatlife.org/take-action
The successful adoption of the historic Pandemic Agreement at this year’s World Health Assembly is “the end of the beginning.” 

Now, countries will negotiate a Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex to the agreement, ensuring the equitable sharing of data on pathogens for the development of tests, vaccines, and treatments.

The PABS annex is crucial to solidifying the equity of benefits in the Pandemic Agreement, and is projected to be ready for the next Assembly.
In the last two weeks, a cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed hundreds and infected thousands.

The outbreak was first declared in August 2024, and has led to over 60,000 cases and 1,600 deaths, spurred by a lack of clean water in the heart of a conflict-heavy region. The ongoing war, displacement, and living conditions are what the UN has deemed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

A cholera vaccination campaign will soon be underway to stem the outbreak, but the work doesn’t stop there. Refugees fleeing Sudan into neighboring countries lack crucial health services.

Visit shotatlife.org/healthystart to learn how you can help.
At its peak in the 1940s and ‘50s, polio paralyzed or killed over half a million people annually. Cases have dropped by 99% worldwide since then.

This is largely due to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which now faces a 40% budget cut next year.

Now is not the time to back down. We can be the generation to #endpolio. Visit shotatlife.org/polio to learn more about this deadly disease and how you can help end it.
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