Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO) is freezing recruitment, restricting travel, and cutting expenses following the U.S. withdrawal, its largest funding source.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned staff of worsening financial pressures and announced measures such as limiting technical missions, virtual-only meetings, renegotiating contracts, and halting office refurbishments.
Critics, like global health consultant Fifa Rahman, say the U.S. move harms global health preparedness.
Italy’s Deputy PM Matteo Salvini has also proposed withdrawing from the WHO, though Italy’s Prime Minister has not taken a stance.
The WHO is an international political organization. If you think they don’t have to be careful about “biting hands that feed them” then you’re deluded. It’s not like they have a military they can use to backup demands. That does not mean that the WHO is not an overall “net good” to the world.
“Things are slightly better with this in place” is about as good a result as you will EVER get from an international organization.
tens of millions of people died, bad, because the WHO ran cover for China. “biting the hand that feeds them” absolute buffoonery