President Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would be withdrawing funding to the WHO...in the middle of a global health crisis. (via pass_blue)
as director-general in 2017 and is the first African to head the organization. At the time, the agency was already in danger of losing its leadership role in sectors like emergency response and health metrics.
The American global health expert Laurie Garrett called the leadership post of the WHO a “hideous job.” Health workers monitor a patient through the quarantine transparent cube in January 2019. Deployed in record time by the association ALIMA and the World Health Organization , these mobile units with transparent walls were an innovation in the fight against Ebola. in 1948 as one of the specialized agencies of the UN. At the time, it was considered a milestone in the history of global health efforts.
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