The World Health Organization’s agenda is being skewed by a growing reliance on the Gates Foundation as the US and other rich countries cut funding, according to new research.
The US’s planned exit from the UN health body in January would make the Gates Foundation the WHO’s largest funder — a prospect the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist has called a “very strange thing”.
The research published in BMJ Global Health on Tuesday said the WHO had warned it needed ‘‘fundamental changes’’ to its financing. If these warnings go unheeded, “then WHO will remain vulnerable to the influence of external donors and will struggle to address the full spectrum of contemporary global health challenges”, the report said.
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