Under-funded WHO seeks 'reinforced' role in global health at key meeting


  • World
  • Monday, 30 Jan 2023

FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a briefing on global health issues in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization will push at its board meeting this week for an expanded role in tackling the next global health emergency after COVID-19, but is still seeking answers on how to fund it, according to health policy experts.

The Geneva meeting sets the programme for the U.N. agency this year – as well as its future budget – with the WHO facing two key challenges: a world that expects ever more from its leading health body, but which has not yet proven willing to fund it to tackle those challenges.

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