Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again | Gordon Brown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Already African and Asian low-income countries have donated to the new investment case produced by the World Health Organization.
57% : And because assessed contributions represent only one quarter of the spending of the World Health Organization, most of its income comes from voluntary contributions made by member states and private charities such as the Gates Foundation.
56% : While the current WHO was created in 1948 under the umbrella of the United Nations, there has been an international global health organisation in the more than 170 years since 1851, the first being set up to deal with cholera as it initially spread undetected and then unaddressed across the world.
51% : In fact, the USA pays $130m in assessed contributions and China pays $88m.As someone who has advised the World Health Organization on finance, I know that funding is allocated on a tried-and-tested formula primarily based on the size of a country's economy, which is similar to that used to pay for UN peacekeeping and contributions to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
45% : Also this week, Tanzania's president confirmed an outbreak of Marburg, an Ebola-like virus, which the country's health minister had previously denied, only after the World Health Organization (WHO) independently reported an outbreak of nine suspected cases and eight deaths.
33% : "World Health ripped us off," Trump said in the Oval Office as he signed up to the one-year countdown to departure.
30% : President Trump wants to leave, arguing that the US shoulders too much of the burden of WHO expenditure, while the WHO listens to China, which, he says, pays only a small portion towards the organisation.
28% : These two new reports of infectious diseases, thousands of miles apart, emphasise why, if a World Health Organization did not exist, it would have to be created to identify and prevent the spread of infectious diseases worldwide.And because infectious diseases now threatening us still include new variants of Covid, it makes no sense for President Trump to announce a day-one executive order to walk away from the one organisation that addresses such health emergencies on a global basis, the World Health Organization (WHO).

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