WHO on Brink of Collapse, Admits It May Never Recover After Major U.S. Funding Withdrawal

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is scrambling to stay afloat following U.S. funding cuts and diminishing outlays from other traditional Western donors, as it admits it may never recover the capacity needed to respond effectively to future pandemics.

As the global health body began its annual nine-day meeting in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, Matthew Kavanagh, the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Policy and Politics, said other countries have used the “U.S. disruption”—the cut in aid—“as cover to do their maneuvering, with many countries in Europe reducing aid.”

“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.

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