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Under-funded WHO seeks 'reinforced' role in global health at key meeting
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation 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
The Geneva meeting sets the programme for the UN 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.
At the Executive Board's annual meeting from Jan 30 to Feb 7, countries will give feedback on WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' global strategy to strengthen readiness for the next pandemic which includes a binding treaty currently being negotiated.
"I think the focus is very much on the programme budget, then sustainable financing," Timothy Armstrong, WHO director for governing bodies, told journalists when asked about the agenda.
Also on his list was "the position of the World Health Organisation, recognising there is a need for a reinforced central role for WHO" in the global health emergency system.
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