The UK is expected to cut funding for a global vaccination team that has vaccinated more than a billion children in developing countries, and a mobile aid team said it would backfire and lose lives.

The expected decision will cause a special alarm after Donald Trump effectively shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and halted most of his own vaccination efforts.

The UK has been one of the largest single donors of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI), providing more than £20 billion in donors to Geneva-based public and private organizations over the past four years.

But as the UK aid budget dropped from 0.7% to 0.5% of GDP, the remaining pot was transferred to the UK's cost of supporting asylum seekers, officials and aid groups said their contribution to Gavi was likely to be substantial reduce.

The last conservative government contributed to aid funds to make up for some money spent on asylum seekers, and it is understood that it plans to increase funds to Garvey.

International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds, who was questioned last week in parliamentarians, said the funding for Gavi in ​​the next fiscal year will depend on a broader government spending review and talked about attempts The Alliance for “Expanding Donor Base”.

Officials said it was expected to be significantly reduced, but they pointed to other major aid efforts, such as the announcement of nearly £20 billion by the International Development Association in November, the World Bank fund in the lowest-income countries.

Aid charities and campaigners believe that Gavi, which was formerly the US and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has proven to be very cost-effective and is very focused on UK aid priorities , such as ending gender differences and helping developing countries support themselves.

Gavi's statistics show that over 25 years of operation, it has vaccinated 1.1 billion children in 78 countries, preventing nearly 18 million deaths.

Isport UK CEO Kitty Arie, a global poverty campaign that works closely with immune contact, said the UK’s role in Gavi’s success is “so proud of us”.

“So it’s really important to step back or stop being a major donor in March,” she said. “On the surface, the UK’s contribution to Garvey will give life.”

Katie Husselby, director of Global Health Action Action, grouped more than 50 UK-based organizations in the industry, said it should be seen in the context of “a truly challenging period for global health” To any decision about GAVI, including Trump's decision at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), drive the United States out of the World Health Organization.

"The cumulative impact of these things on global health is really really disastrous," she said. "So, I think it's very important to look at the decisions surrounding Gavi in ​​that context. The global context is extremely challenging and we've seen a lot of health. The retreat of progress.”

Aid source said they were concerned that Dodds was using the government's ongoing spending review as the "cover" of the change plan, noting that while she said it meant she could not comment on Garvey's commitment, other aids Funds have also been released.

Monica Harding, a spokesman for liberal Democats on international development, said the UK has been a global leader in immunization of children. “Now, as a time of deepening conflict and crisis in the world, it is crucial that we must firmly support the poorest efforts in the world,” she said.

She said aid spending under Labor has also dropped. Warmth will not protect the poorest children in the world. ”

Contact the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for comment.