The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a fifth budget after the United States, its biggest contributor, would have to be drawn and will have a number of missions and staff reduce the director of the WHO in the internal e-mail to which AFP had insight into.
Who up to 2025. Faced with a lack of revenue from nearly 600 million dollars and now “There are no other choices” than to start with the cuts, he explained to Tedros ADhan Ghebreyesus sent on Friday staff of the UN Health Agency.
Apart from the takeover of the presidential function in January initiated the retreat from the WHO, Donald Trump decided to freeze almost all America’s foreign assistance, including important programs aimed at improving global health.
The United States has already begun with the WHO’s first trump process 2020. He justified his decision on the withdrawal in January in the mismatch of American and Chinese financial contributions, accusing the organization to “cheated” the United States. Therefore, Tedros warned Tedros in late January that the WHO would have to take new measures in the form of reducing costs.
The United States was by far the greatest contributor of the WHO budget. For example, they are in the last two-year budget cycle for 2022-2023., Provided 16.3 percent of the organization’s total budget of $ 7.89 billion.
The “drastic cuts of the US official assistance intended for other countries caused huge disorders in these countries, and this is especially true of non-governmental organizations and the UN agencies, including WHO,” Tedros wrote in e-mail.
Even before the US withdrawal process from the WHO has already been faced with financial constraints, and more than nine months ago, it started working on measures that should have contributed to its effectiveness, its leader. But “the announcement of the United States, in combination with recent cuts when it is assisted by some countries for financing increased consumption for defense, has made our situation even more critical than it was,” Tedros explained.
The Fabroar is the Executive Board of the WHO proposed budget for the period 2026-2027. shrunk from $ 5.3 billion to $ 4.9 billion.
“Since then, the hearing prospects only exacerbated and because of which, we proposed the Member States to the budget to 4.2 billion dollars, which is 21 percent less compared to the originally proposed budget,” Tedros wrote.
“Despite all our efforts, we are now at the point where we are the only choice of labor scope and the number of employees will start applying at the level of the organization, but will affect all levels and all regions.” Concluded the Secretary-General.
(Vijesti.ba)
