Wednesday
April 30
2025

WHO’s Elusive Plans to Scale Back Fray Nerves

By Paula Dupraz-Dobias

Just weeks before the annual World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed its latest proposals to slim the nearly 10,000 staff-strong organisation, as donor cuts weigh heavily on the UN agency.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the United Nations health agency’s director general, met in closed-door sessions on Tuesday– first with staff and then with member states – in what one official source said stretched into a three-hour meeting involving an array of questions as he unveiled his latest plan to condense operations.

Photo courtesy of United States Mission Geneva.

Source: Geneva Solutions (link opens in a new window)

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