“The Gates Foundation has long championed private sector involvement in, and private sector profit-making from global health,” Birn told The Gray Zone. One of GAVI’s senior representatives even reported that Bill Gates often told him in private conversations that he is vehemently “against health systems” because it is a “complete waste of money.”193 Katerini Storeng, researcher at Oslo’s Centre for Development and Environment, writes that a GAVI staffer told her that the foundation was a “very loud, vocal voice, saying that we do not believe in the strengthening of health systems.” “A former
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