US EditionWorld Health Organization announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts
- The World Health Organization announced restructuring and job reductions to staff and member states on Tuesday.
- This action followed Washington not paying its 2024 dues and expecting not to pay 2025 fees.
- As the agency's largest donor, the United States' funding cuts created a significant budget shortfall.
- The organization faces a projected salary gap of $560 to $650 million for the 2026-27 period.
- Therefore, the WHO must decrease its work scale and reduce its workforce.
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This is also true for the World Health Organization (WHO), which no longer has enough funds to pay salaries without the US contributions. A mass dismissal has now been announced. More than a fifth of the employees could lose their job. When the member states agreed on a draft contract for the controversial WHO pandemic agreement on 16 April, which is to be submitted to the World Health Assembly on 19 May for the vote, the supporters of this dyst…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has made proposals to reduce its workforce in a context of severe budget cuts. A more "condensed and rational" operation, according to one expert, but the 10,000 employees are in the darkSix hundred million deficits by 2025. This is what the WHO is in after the withdrawal of the United States in January, which brought it about a quarter of its funding – or $1.2 billion for the period 2022-2023 – and the non-pa…
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udgtvThe Director General of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the cuts in US funds left this UN agency with a huge budget deficit, forcing it to reduce operations and lay off staff. “The sudden loss of income left us with a large wage gap and no other option than to reduce the scale of our work and staff,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the Member States, according to a transcript of the statement. The United Nations health agency …
World Health Organization announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts
The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars. Morgan Ayre reports.
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