World Health Organization receives $1 billion in pledges for next budget

15/10/2024 7:03

        The World Health Organization said it received pledges worth $700 million for its 2025-2028 budget at a event in Berlin on Monday, in addition to $300
        million already pledged by the European and African Unions.
        
        "The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that when health is at risk, everything is at risk," WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the event. "Investments in WHO are therefore investments not only in protecting and promoting health, but also in more equitable, more stable and more secure societies
        and economies."
        
        Germany said it would provide at least 360 million euros ($392.47 million). It and the United States are the biggest country donors to the Geneva-based organization.
        
        "Recently, just a handful of countries have provided large amounts of funding," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. "It would be better for us to spread the responsibility across many more shoulders."