LONDON: Pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis ...
"De-funding the WHO makes absolutely no sense during a pandemic. We need a global coordinated response," Gates, who co-chairs the foundation with the billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said in a telephone interview.President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a halt in US funding to the WHO, saying it had"failed in its basic duty" in allowing the pandemic to take hold.The Gates Foundation is the second largest donor to the WHO behind the United States.
Alongside support for new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines, the Gates money is primarily aimed at helping poorer countries and vulnerable populations handle the oncoming and spreading pandemic and the poverty it will cause. Praising what she described as"heroic work" by local leaders and healthcare workers in poorer countries seeking to protect vulnerable communities and slow the spread of COVID-19, Melinda Gates said the world's response to the pandemic"will not be effective unless it is also equitable".
There are currently no effective vaccines, drugs or other immune system treatments approved to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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