The pandemic, combined with the threat of lost US funding, clearly constitutes the biggest challenge to date in the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' near three-year tenure.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the World Health Organization, has drawn the ire of US President Donald Trump over his chummy tone with China in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, the US president announced that Washington, the biggest contributor to the UN health agency, would suspend its funding. Before the 2017 vote, where he faced off against five other candidates, the UN agency's executive committee would put forward just one nominee for countries to approve or reject.
During that virtual briefing on April 8, Tedros also revealed that for months he had faced a virulent campaign of abuse against him, including racist comments and death threats.Tedros said much of the abuse he was suffering had originated in Taiwan. It is excluded from the WHO and other international bodies at the behest of China, which considers the self-ruling democracy to be a Chinese province awaiting reunification.
Suerie Moon, the co-director of the Graduate Institute's Global Health Centre, meanwhile insisted on Twitter that"Tedros has proven himself to be a strong, skilled leader and experienced diplomat."During the 2017 election, Tedros managed to fight off a last-minute controversy after an advisor to his British rival David Nabarro accused him of covering up three major outbreaks of cholera in Ethiopia.
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