Gavi the Vaccine Alliance is investing more than $600 million to reach its goal of vaccinating 86 million girls in low- and middle-income countries by 2025. The alliance is funded in large part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has donated $4.1 billion to date.  The United Nations' World Health Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank are also involved. The Clinton Health Access Initiative is on Gavi's board. James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., a critic of the global HPV vaccine campaign, suggested mass vaccination will cause a devastating number of side effects/ serious adverse events (SAE) that will occur at the rate of 65,000 per million women vaccinated and will lead to will lead to a mass casualty event. Merck is one of Gavi's key partners in distributing vaccines in low- and middle-income countries worldwide. The article states that the vast majority of HPV virus infections that can cause cancer clear on their own.

.This article was originally published by The Defender — Children's Health Defense's News & Views Website.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is investing more than $600 million to reach its goal of vaccinating 86 million girls in low- and middle-income countries by 2025. The alliance is funded in large part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

An international campaign — funded in large part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to inject tens of millions of young girls with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is drawing fire from critics who allege the vaccine will cause far more harm than good.

Claiming the initiative will avert "over 1.4 million future deaths," Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announced it is investing more than $600 million to reach its goal of vaccinating 86 million girls in low- and middle-income countries by 2025.