WHO Calls on US to Reconsider Health Aid Cuts

The WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the US to reconsider significant cuts to health aid, warning it could endanger millions of lives.


WHO Calls on US to Reconsider Health Aid Cuts

Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the USA on Monday with the call to "reverse" the sharp decline in health funding, warning that sudden cuts threaten millions of lives.

"We urge the United States to reverse its support for the World Health Organization," Tedros told journalists, warning that cuts in funding could nullify the achievements made over the past twenty years and lead to more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and three million deaths related to AIDS."

After returning to the White House in January, Trump virtually froze all US foreign aid, including