“The WHO faces an existential crisis that goes well beyond a budget gap to the question of whether this sort of multilateralism can succeed in addressing global health in this new era of nationalism and misinformation,” he said, alluding to discord between many countries that could cost lives.
After U.S. cuts funding, WHO head defends $2.1B budget request by comparing it with cost of war
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Less than 1% of the U.S. health budget goes to WHO, said Matthew Kavanagh, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Policy and Politics.
WHO head asks countries to push Washington to reconsider its withdrawal
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