"Letter: Virus proves need for WHO funding reform"
Financial Times ┃ 송경진 파이낸셜뉴스 글로벌이슈센터장
입력 2020.07.14.
The Covid-19 crisis has further highlighted the pressing need for reform of the World Health Organization (“WHO struggles to prove itself in the face of Covid-19”, Report, July 13). This is an opportune time to agree on reform measures for delivery soon after the world has dealt with the pandemic. The much politicised problems of the WHO are the problems of the 194 member governments. The World Health Assembly’s 1993 decision not to expand the mandatory contributions was a watershed in destabilising the already unstable financing, subsequently throwing the WHO agenda, priorities, capacity building and independence into disarray. Its budget of $4.84bn for 2020-21 is less than half South Korea’s public health budget for 2020 ($10.8bn)
The much politicised problems of the WHO are the problems of the 194 member governments. The World Health Assembly’s 1993 decision not to expand the mandatory contributions was a watershed in destabilising the already unstable financing, subsequently throwing the WHO agenda, priorities, capacity building and independence into disarray. Its budget of $4.84bn for 2020-21 is less than half South Korea’s public health budget for 2020 ($10.8bn).
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