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Helen Clark appointed Chair of Vaccine Alliance Gavi

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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark is set to take over as chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — a global organisation heavily funded by governments, pharmaceutical interests and billionaire foundations.

Gavi announced Clark’s appointment after what it described as an eight-month search that considered 240 candidates. Clark, who served three terms as New Zealand’s prime minister and later led the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is expected to assume the role in January 2026. She replaces former European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, who oversaw Gavi’s COVID-19 gene therapy rollout and funding drive.

Founded in 2000 with backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and major pharmaceutical companies, Gavi operates as a public-private partnership that coordinates global vaccine procurement and distribution. Critics have long questioned its accountability and influence over national health policy, noting that its board includes powerful corporate and philanthropic actors who help determine immunisation priorities across low- and middle-income nations.

Clark said she was “honoured” to be selected and praised Gavi’s 25-year record of protecting “children from preventable disease.” Skeptics argue that Gavi’s model prioritises donor and industry interests over local autonomy, pointing to its close ties to vaccine manufacturers and its central role in the controversial COVAX initiative during the pandemic — a programme accused of exacerbating inequities between wealthy and poorer nations.

Barroso, in his farewell remarks, highlighted Gavi’s delivery of “two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines” and the expansion of malaria and HPV immunisations under his tenure. Yet those achievements came amid growing public concern over coercive vaccination policies, opaque supply contracts, and reports of adverse events that were often downplayed by Gavi’s partners, including the WHO and UNICEF.

Clark will take charge as Gavi enters its sixth “strategic period” in 2026, with plans to expand operations in conflict-affected regions and roll out an internal reform programme dubbed “Gavi Leap.”

Observers say her appointment signals a continuation of Gavi’s technocratic approach to global health governance — one that consolidates decision-making among elite international networks while remaining largely insulated from democratic oversight.

Dr Sania Nishtar, Gavi’s chief executive, welcomed Clark’s appointment, calling her “a respected global leader.”

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  1. New Zealand contributes to the Gavi Vaccine Alliance, both financially and technically, with a focus on equitable vaccine access for developing countries.
    In 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pledged NZD $7 million during the Global Vaccine Summit to support Gavi’s COVAX AMC, aimed at equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
    New Zealand later contributed an additional NZD $10 million to COVAX AMC
    And NZD $9 million for vaccine delivery support, bringing the total commitment to NZD $26 million.
    Beyond funding, New Zealand helped design the dose-donation mechanism for COVAX AMC, shaping how surplus vaccines could be shared globally.
    New Zealand’s contributions prioritize fair vaccine access for Pacific nations, aligning with its regional stewardship and foreign aid strategy.
    New Zealand also joined the COVAX Facility, a global pre-purchase mechanism led by Gavi, WHO, and others, to ensure timely access to vaccines during the pandemic.

    • NZ could sure use $26 million now in boosting the “health” department.
      Clark & Ardern deserve what they’ll get in Hell if they don’t wake up to the evil they have, and continue, to perpetuate and change their direction.
      Utterly shameful how these traitors have sold us down the plughole and I can only hope that more NZers will remember their deeds and search for better representatives come elections.

  2. Oh how the country of my birth and spawned such cretinous soulless and valueless puppeteers. We are clearly too compliant, creating a Petri dish ideally suited to social dysfunction. The political filth then condition the naive with tabloid media with the right level of condescension, vilification and repetition.

    To think Helen, you could have used your intellect for good!

    • Quite right anon 314. Clark is the brightest nz pm I’ve witnessed but….

      Nzs low level of political corruption was reversed when Clark took power.

      After enriching herself and M Cullen, Clark advised Ardern how to enrich herself at our expense (we all know ardern wasn’t clever enough to do it).

      It looks like Clark is now advising Nicola Willis

  3. These people never seem to go away….like re-arranged Chess pieces on the board…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFroYI3sqA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITvK3HEpJE
    But…NOT to worry, as the ‘Village’ (Zio-Global) was the first projected ‘Smart City’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJVLWPyXXvk
    Patrick McGoohan was a genius exposing the Globalist Plans back in 1967-68.
    After occultically exposing their secrets, he was marginalised from this point on.
    He ended-up becoming ‘unmutual’ in film…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OcBAbBank

  4. What dork choose that old venomous hag?

    It has become clear that we need a new system of governance.

    WTF is Clark doing in that role? Bring in an old mate to agree with the perpetrators and pay her our tax dollars for her time.

  5. Remember, there are no NGO’s.

    Only GO’s pretending not to be using your own tax money against you at every conceivable opportunity.

  6. Why doesn’t old snaggle tooth just F off and stop reminding us of her…….

    Hopefully she’s up to date with all her jabs….

  7. Helen Clark will be 76 years old in February. At that age, she should not be chair of anything.

    I was unaware there was a Vaccine Alliance. Even if there is, I and I suspect the vast majority will not be taking that poison ever.

    New Zealanders are 90% aware of the harms and deaths from the vaccines. The drug companies have paid out billions in compensation to the victims in the US. WTF is NZ still pushing this crap.

  8. Helen Clark (she’s a good bloke) is nothing but a NWO globalists tool (I was going to end with a different four lettered word beginning with s and ending with t, with a u and and a l in there, but thought it might not get through).
    Typical of what passes for “leadership” in “liberal western democracies”.

  9. “Considered 240 other candidates” How about a list of names so we can identify these people as a possible threat to humanity 🤔

  10. I’ll keep saying it, vote mainstream and you get mainstream…..you want real change in NZ stop being a wimp and vote for a new party……

  11. Helen Clark is clearly an evil demonically possessed reptilian.

    I did briefly meet her once, and she truly was a scary hideous terrifying ‘walking undead’ zombie style apparition.

    I’ll never forget it.

  12. The key thing here is Helen Clark has been appointed not elected into that role. No democracy from the people whatsoever. You would think someone tossed out on her ear should have no role leading anyone or any public administration ever again.

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