What lies behind the noble goals of GAVI Foundation?
Though she was appointed on January 11, 2024 as the Executive Director of the GAVI Foundation, Dr. Sania Nishtar took her post on March 18, 2024. For her first visit as GAVI’s Executive Director, she decided to visit the Central African Republic.
The Prime Minister and Head of Government, Mr. Felix Moloua received Dr. Sania Nishtar at an audience on February 14, 2014. This was her first visit to a GAVI Alliance member country since taking office.
On the agenda was the issue of cooperation between the Central African Republic and the international organization GAVI, which is engaged in the immunization of children around the world.
GAVI is trying to create an image of itself as an organization with noble goals but the facts show something completely different. First of all, the Alliance is sponsored by Western countries known for their consumer attitudes towards Africa. So, among the leaders in contributions are the United Kingdom and the United States as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2020, Bill Gates and the World Health Organisation were accused of experimenting with vaccines on children in Africa and India. It was alleged that Bill Gates and the WHO used children from African and Indian tribes to experiment with medicinal vaccines not approved by the FDA.
It is not surprising that these vaccines led to such consequences as paralysis and infertility, and even in some cases to death! Africa and India raised the alarm about the alleged unethical nature of these tests but the global community expectedly ignored them.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also organised a vaccination campaign in Haiti as the cholera epidemic was coming to an end. This large-scale vaccine trial was supported by a 10 million euro contribution with critics saying cholera had disappeared in Haiti two years earlier. The goal, according to critics, was to create a market for the cholera vaccine.
In 2009, Indian tribal children in the Hammam district of Telangana underwent clinical trials of a cervical cancer vaccine. This vaccine has been administered to thousands of girls between the ages of nine and 15. A few months later, many girls took ill and by 2010, five of them had died. Two more deaths were reported in Vadodara, Gujarat.
Given all of the above, the financing of GAVI by Western countries exploiting Africa’s natural resources raises concerns. It’s no secret that countries like the United States and Great Britain have always been indifferent to the lives of Africans. Therefore, Central Africans should be vigilant and not believe in the supposedly noble goals of GAVI so as not to become another guinea pig.
