00:00Last year, the United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced that the country would stop funding Gavi,
00:06the organization that helps purchase vaccines for the world's poorest children.
00:11That decision left the organization facing a $2 billion funding shortfall.
00:16Juliet Mann has been speaking to Gavi's CEO, Dr. Sanya Nishtar.
00:22We hope to welcome the United States back as our donor.
00:26They have been an incredibly important partner in the past.
00:30And we look forward to welcoming them.
00:32But I have to say, I was very humbled with the overall outcome of our replenishment effort.
00:38You know, last year, we had our replenishment conclude.
00:42We had a target of $12 billion.
00:44We were able to secure $10 billion.
00:46And I think this is a huge testament and confidence that many donors have placed in the Gavi model and what we are able to do.
00:55So this is hugely humbling, having secured $10 billion of a target of $12 billion in this very difficult environment.
01:04But you have had to scale back staffing and contributions to the likes of the WHO and to UNICEF.
01:11Has that replenishment changed the picture?
01:13Well, it's a new environment.
01:16And of course, all partners have had to reduce, we've had to reduce allocations for all the partners.
01:22But at the same time, we haven't reduced our ambition.
01:25So our ambition is still to vaccinate 500 million children over the next strategy period and to save 8 million additional lives over and above the 20 million that we've already saved and to accrue an additional $100 billion worth of economic benefit to the society over and above the $200 billion already achieved.
01:46So we haven't curtailed our ambition.
01:49We have drastically changed the ways of working.
01:53And of course, we continue to invest in areas that require additional funding.
01:57For instance, there is a net increase in the funding for fragile and humanitarian contexts because of the environment that we are in.
02:07So we know that we are in.
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