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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"trump",<br>"author":"steem-dragon",<br>"permlink":"the-us-is-halting-funding-to-the-who-what-does-this-actually-mean",<br>"title":"The US is halting funding to the WHO. What does this actually mean?",<br>"body":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200414182637-01-coronavirus-briefing-trump-0414-exlarge-169.jpg\n\nUS President Donald Trump stunned world leaders and health experts on Tuesday when he announced he was halting funding to the World Health Organization,<br> in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe first threatened to do so last week,<br> accusing the WHO of mismanaging the spread of the novel coronavirus,<br> and of not acting quickly enough to investigate the virus when it first emerged in China in December 2019.\n\nAntonio Guterres,<br> secretary-general of the United Nations,<br> which is the WHO's parent organization,<br> described the pandemic as unprecedented in a statement Tuesday and acknowledged that there would be \"lessons learned\" for future outbreaks.\n\"Once we have finally turned the page on this epidemic,<br> there must be a time to look back fully to understand how such a disease emerged and spread its devastation so quickly across the globe,<br> and how all those involved reacted to the crisis,<br>\" he said in the statement.\n\"But now is not that time ... it is also not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus,<br>\" he said,<br> urging unity in the face of a pandemic that has killed more than 126,<br>000 people globally.\n\nWhat is the WHO?\n\nThe WHO is a UN agency founded in 1948,<br> only several years after the UN itself was formed. The agency was created to coordinate international health policy,<br> particularly on infectious disease.\nThe organization is comprised of and run by 194 member states. Each member chooses a delegation of health experts and leaders to represent the country in the World Health Assembly,<br> the organization's decision and policy-making body.\nThe member states directly control the organization's leadership and direction -- the assembly appoints the WHO director general,<br> sets its agenda and priorities,<br> reviews and approves budgets,<br> and more.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"trump\",<br>\"who\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200414182637-01-coronavirus-briefing-trump-0414-exlarge-169.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.2\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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