The world risks being left “dangerously exposed” to the next pandemic due to staff cuts at the World Health Organization (WHO), experts have warned.
The UN’s health agency is to lose more than a quarter of its workforce by the end of June due to a serious funding crisis caused by Donald Trump withdrawing US support a day into his second presidential term last year.
This month, Argentina also pulled out of WHO and other countries have reduced their support.
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Both Trump and Javier Milei, the Argentinian president, previously cited the Geneva-based organisation’s handling of the Covid pandemic as reasons for axing their funding.
