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World 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 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 …

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The UN will reduce the number of operations and lay off personnel because of cuts in funding from the United States.

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udgtv broke the news in on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.
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