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The World Health Organization WHO has announced a road map for cuts and tightening as it navigates a different reality in the absence of US funding.
A new internal memo signed by WHO assistant director-general Raul Thomas detailed plans by the UN agency to limit staff contracts to one year as it makes efforts to fix priorities.
The document along with detailing further cuts stated that senior officials within the agency have already begun prioritizing work that would make the global agency’s work sustainable.
"While operating in an extremely fluid environment, WHO’s senior management are working to navigate these shifting tides by undertaking a prioritization process," the memo said.
"Their work will ensure that every resource is directed toward the most pressing priorities while preserving WHO's ability to make a lasting impact," it said.
Washington, which was instrumental in helping set up the agency after World War Two and has been one of its most active members, is by far the U.N. health agency's biggest financial backer, contributing around 18% of its overall funding.
The document also mentioned that staff were already seeking funding from alternative sources like philanthropists, private donors and other countries.
It is unclear however if these attempts at seeking funding have been successful.
The internal memo, while not outrightly announcing immediate staff cuts, said "given the magnitude of the challenges we face, some difficult decisions are unavoidable."
In the period from 2022 to 2023, the US gave up to $1.284 billion to WHO as experts continue to decry the move by the Trump administration saying that it would spell disaster for public health around the world.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is facing its first lawsuits in the United Kingdom over claims that its talc-based products cause cancer, as it continues to battle tens of thousands of similar cases in the United States.
The World Health Organization on Monday issued a health advisory warning about three contaminated cough syrups identified in India, urging authorities to report any detection of these medicines in their countries to the health agency.
Around 6,000 students in Malaysia have been infected with influenza and some schools have been closed for the safety of children and staff, an education ministry official said.
Indian police have arrested the owner of Sresan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, the cough syrup company linked to the deaths of at least 19 children in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police officer told Reuters on Thursday.
More than 200 health facilities in war-hit eastern Congo have run out of medicines due to widespread looting and supply chain disruptions during fighting this year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.
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