Could give millions of deaths: WHO boss warns of US cuts

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros adhanom ghebreyesus the US government has to rethink their Medium cuts for health programs called – and before Millions of death Warned. The interruption of global programs against money alone against money HIV “Could destroy 20 years of progress,” said Tedros in Geneva on Monday.

This in turn could lead to “more than ten million additional HIV attachments and three million deaths linked to HIV”.

WHO boss: US government should rethink cuts

According to Tedros, there would be enormous effects in particular to stop direct payments to states through the US Development Aid Organization USAID and the US health authority CDC. The reduction of US funds would therefore be massively affected by the struggle against HIV, among other things, including that Global approach to paralysis of children, malaria and tuberculosis – as well as the global Vaccination campaigns against measles and rubella.

Tedros called on the US government, who had drastic drastic Cuts the US foreign assistance too “rethinking”. In the past two decades, the United States had been the country with the largest bilateral payments in the fight against Malaria and thus contributed to preventing an estimated 2.2 billion illnesses and 12.7 million deaths. These and further progress are now at stake.

USA so far the largest donor from the WHO

The United States has been the The biggest WHO donor. Shortly after taking office, Trump explained the leakage of his country from the organization and Fror also almost all of the US foreign assistance. Trump had already frozen the US payments to the organization during his first term from 2017 to 2021 and explained the country’s resignation that his successor Joe Biden had reversed this decision.