[Perspectives] A quest for vaccine equity

For those working in global health, and especially on immunisation, it is difficult not to feel despair at the headwinds in 2025 that have been blowing forcefully against decades of collective efforts to improve the world's health through prevention of infectious diseases, especially for those in greatest need. Cuts to official development assistance in Europe and USAID in the USA, and reduced funding for WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, among other organisations, threaten populations today, with the impacts expected to be felt for a generation.