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January 28, 2025
WHO (World Health Organization) Takes To Social Media And Begs For Money Online After Trump Announces Withdrawal
Via The Expose -All News Pipeline
Just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to concerns about Chinas outsize role, a top leader at the global organization has begun fundraising on social media.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the infectious disease epidemiologist who served as the WHOs technical lead on the covid-19 pandemic,posted on X(formerly Twitter)on Thursday morning asking for donations to the WHO Foundation.
As of Friday afternoon, only around $23,000 had been raised toward a $1 billion goal.
Its a meager fraction of the $706 million shortfall in contributions anticipated from the US for the 2024-2025 two-year budget period 18 per cent of the organizations revenue.
Trumpsexecutive order signedjust hours after his inauguration initiates a year-long notification period specified in thejoint resolutionadopted by Congress in 1948 establishing US membership in the WHO.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told staff on Thursday that the organization would implement cost reductions and efficiencies, including a freeze on new hires except in the most critical areas and a stop to capital investments, according tonewsreports.
Programs most reliant on US voluntary contributions include those addressing HIV, AIDS and other STIs (75% of global voluntary contributions) and tuberculosis (61% of global voluntary contributions), according to aPowerPoint providedto theDaily Caller News Foundation.
The executive order also recalls American WHO staff and contractors.
The US is required to meetits financial obligations to the WHO for the fiscal year before withdrawal, according to international conventions. TheCongressional Research Servicefound that it is unclear how the WHO can credibly enforce mandated payments, though under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a nation must pay its remaining financial obligations before withdrawing from a treaty.
The new executive order states that US withdrawal was motivated by unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries assessed payments namely Chinas.
WHO receivesassessed(mandatory) contributions from member states that are scaled by population and GDP, as well as voluntary contributions from both private organizations and member states. Currently, the US and China pay comparable amounts in assessed contributions China is due to pay $181 million in assessed contributions for the years 2024 and 2025, while the US was set to pay $264 million. But in voluntary contributions, China hardly donates anything: It is expected to pay just $2.5 million in 2024 and 2025. Before the executive order, the US was expected to make voluntary contributions totaling $442 million.
The WHO was expecting the US to pay its 2024 assessed contribution this month totaling $130 million, but to date has not received it.
China is the worlds second-largest economy yet remainsformally classifiedas a developing country by the United Nations. Still, Chinas assessed payments to the WHO have grown in recent years as its economy has grown, up from the $53 million China contributed over a two-year budget period a decade ago.
The executive order also spotlights the WHOs deference to Beijing authorities as it attempted to access tightly controlled hospitals and laboratories in Wuhan during the covid-19 pandemic.
The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organizations mishandling of the covid-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states, the order states.
The WHOs first mission to Wuhan in February 2020 praised Chinas lockdowns as perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history, a statement amplified as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party inChinese propaganda. Asecond missionto Wuhan in January and February 2021 to uncover the pandemics origins resulted ina reportand press conference that dismissed the hypothesis that the pandemic resulted from a laboratory accident asextremely unlikely,reportedly becauseit was the only way in which WHO lead investigator, Peter Ben Embarek, could include that possibility in the missions conclusions.
The WHO has never received the full data necessary to assess the pandemics origins.
WHO has repeatedly asked China to share all available information on the earliest cases, animals sold in Wuhan markets, labs working with coronaviruses, and more, but to date it has not received this information, Van Kerkhove wrote inScienceon 16 January.
Even still, van Kerkhove emphasized that it is imperative for countries not to assign blame.
Van Kerkhoves confirmation that the early case data is incomplete challenges a claim made by Western virologists in 2022 also published in the pages ofScience that this early case data, provided by Beijing authorities to the WHO, radiate from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market like a bullseye, establishing it unambiguously as the pandemics origin.
Some public health experts have warned that removing the US from the WHO could curtail access to important data about emerging outbreaks.
Earlier this month, WHOinformed its member statesof a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus in the United Republic of Tanzania.
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