Here's what else is happening

• ✂️US Freezes all funds to Gavi over vaccine preservative Thimerosal. The decision is driven by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s unproven claims that the ingredient leads to autism. Still, only 14 per cent of the Vaccine Alliance’s vaccines contain the substance.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 💸US withdrawal from multiple UN agencies raises alarm in Kenya. Washington’s decision to exit a host of UN entities, including Nairobi-based ones like UN-Habitat, puts at risk between $250 million and $350 million in annual US funding for the UN’s Nairobi hub.
  Semafor (EN)
• 🕌Will Riyadh replace international Geneva? The first edition of the Beyond Profit Forum took place last December under the gilded ceilings of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton. The Saudi-backed initiative promotes its own form of capitalist philanthropy and an ambition to position the kingdom as a global non-profit hub.
  Heidi.news🔐 (FR)
• ♟️Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ redraws US foreign aid map. Washington’s new interest-driven strategy increases funding for the Western Hemisphere and East Asia to 40 per cent and ties it to military cooperation, trade and UN votes.
  Devex (EN)