Geneva - The head of the World Health Organization on Monday deprived the head of the U.S. Health Organization on Monday, appealing to member states to support its “extremely modest” annual budget request, through the view that the sum was placed behind the advertising campaign for tobacco activities or war expenses.
After nearly 80 years of hard work to improve human life and health – critics say it has done poorly or not enough – in January when President Donald Trump stopped U.S. funding in January, which is traditionally the largest donor.
“Two cents billion USD equals global military spending every eight hours,” said Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "Two cents billion USD is the price of a stealth bomber, killing people."
"And $2.1 billion is a quarter of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising and promotions every year," he told the WHO annual parliament. "It seems that someone converts the price tag into something truly valuable in our world." ”
Tedros did not specifically mention the U.S. cuts, but previously said that the U.S. pull was a "mistake" and urged Washington to reconsider.
A State Department spokesman confirmed in an email that “the United States will not participate in the delegations participating in the World Health Assembly.”
Who has proposed a budget in the next two years, 22% more than the original plan, which is primarily in response to cuts by us and other Western countries and says that a commitment of about 60% has been met. But this still faces a $1.7 billion budget gap.
"We know that in the current landscape, mobilizing this amount will be a challenge. We are not naive to challenge it," Tedros said.
"But for an organization working in 150 countries, member states have given us a huge task, not ambitious for two years (or $4.2 billion per year). It's extremely modest," he said.
Due to the cuts, UN health agencies have the ability to perform their comprehensive mission this year to reduce sugar levels from soft drink recommendations to be responsible for global response to the Covid-19 or Polio parte outbreak.
Tedros and his team have been struggling to respond to the U.S. cuts and have reduced spending in wealthy European countries that are concerned about Russian expansionists and invest more money in defense and less in the direction of humanitarian and development aid.
Matthew Kavanagh, director of the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics at Georgetown University, said other countries have used the U.S. to cut aid, “as a cover-up of their manipulation, many European countries are reducing aid.”
“Whether this multilateralism can successfully address global health in this new nationalism and misinformation faces a survival crisis that goes far beyond the budget gap,” he said.
Kavanagh added: "Literally, millions of people may die unnecessarily on the current trajectory, and the World Health Minister does not seem capable of responding coherently."
At the Nine Days World Health Assembly, there are two major advances aimed at supporting whose financial strength and strengthening the world’s ability to cope with future pandemics.
Member States are expected to agree to increase annual dues, called “assessment contributions” to support who fund whom and reduce their reliance on voluntary government contributions – which changes every year and accounts for more than half of the budget.
They also expect them to agree to a tough “pandemic treaty” that was born, which aspires to avoid any replay of the sporadic, inequality response to Covid-19, and the next (and most experts) say most experts say most people are pandemic.
Among other things, the treaty will guarantee that countries that share critical virus samples will receive any results for testing, medicines and vaccines, and grant up to 20% of such products in the product to ensure that poorer countries can use them.
"Every World Health Assembly is important, but this is especially true this year," Tedros said. "It's really a historic moment."
The effectiveness of the treaty will be questioned when the United States (willing billions of dollars into rapid work by pharmaceutical companies to develop COVID-19 vaccines), and the state will not face fines because of the situation in international law.
Kavanagh said the treaty “could be a major victory—the evidence suggests that the U.S. government may no longer be essential in global health” and could provide opportunities for developing countries in the “global south” in the long run.
Trump has long been ridiculing who, including in his first term, when he withdrew from the United States for alleged mistakes against China and other so-called mistakes. President Joe Biden rejoins the United States.
Trump signed an executive order on his first day in January to suspend the future transfer of U.S. government funds to the WHO, recalling the work of U.S. government staff and announcing a formal retreat by next January under a one-year schedule set by U.S. law.
The other opponents continue to lash out at whom. Ciquicengo, a radical group that supports the right to life and religious freedom, protested on Monday against a pandemic treaty outside the UN compound in Geneva.
The rally includes a balloon sculpture in the shape of the world, as well as a banner for the "globalist elite" and shows the image of Tedros and Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.
Citizen campaigner Sebastian Lukomski said: “After sharing, it’s a good idea to get together and think that it’s a good idea to concentrate power.
In the process of the convention to sort out houses and cut costs.
At a meeting of the budget last week, former Ethiopian Health and Foreign Minister Tedros announced a reorganization of senior management, including the exit of principal adviser Dr. Michael Ryan as head of emergency.
Tedros said last week that the losses of U.S. funds and other aid put the WHO's salary gap by more than $500 million.