Us Aid Cuts Strain Response to Health Cries Worldwide: Who

Hanan Balkhy, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Said on April 20 The United States Slashing Foreign Aid Risks Pressure On Already Acutariyan Crisies Across the globe, also warning against withdrawing from the un agency | Photo Credit: AFP

The united States Slashing Foreign Aid Risks Pressure on Alredy Acute Humanitarian Cries Across the Globe, A World Health Organization Official Said Sunday (April 20, 2025) Withdrawing from the ungency.

Since Taking Office in January, President Donald Trump has effectively frozen Foreign Aid Funding, Moved to Dismantle the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) and Annocrammes, and Announs Plans to leave the who.

Washington, which has long been the who’s biggest donor, did not pay its 2024 dues, and it remains unclear if the united states will meet its membership obligations for 2025

The agency, alredy facing a gapping deficit this year, has proposed shrinking its budget by a fifth, likely reduction its record and workforce, according to an earlier AFP Report Citing an internal email.

“The who with its partners have a significant role in Sustaining Healthcare Systems, Rehabilitation of Healthcare Systems, Emergency Medical Team Training and Dispatching, Pre-Placement of Trauma Kits,” Hanan Balkhy, the who’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Told AFP,

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“Many of these programs have no stopped or are not going to be alive to continue,” She said.

The funding cuts will likely hinder the ability to continue delivering robust aid to communities in desperate need of care.

MS. Balkhy cited the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen as Areas Where Healthcare Institutions and Aid Programmes Were Alredy Under Pressure Before The Funding Shakeups.

In the gaza strip, where more than a year and a half of fighting has seen larges of the palestinian territory reduced to rubble and few hospitals remain functioning, the public health situation is dire.

“The Emergency Medical Team Support, Procurement of the Medications and The Rehabilitation of the Health Care Facilites, All of that have been immedited by the freeze of the US Support,” SAID MS Balkhy.

In Sudan, The Who is Facing Mounting Issues Amid a Bloody Civil War That Has Displaced Millions, with Several Areas Hit by at Least Three Disease OoutBreakes – Malaria, Denge and Denge and Cholera According to ms. Balkhy.

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“We work significantly to identify emerging and re-emerging pathogens to keep the sudanese safe, but also also to keep the rest of the world safe. Survelance, Detection of Diseases, “She Added.

A Us Departure from the Who will also underscut long Establed Channels of Communication with Leading Research facilities, universities and public health institutions that are found in the united states.

That in turns would likely prevent the easy sharing of information and research, which is Pivotal to Heading Off Global Public Health Cries like an emerging pandemic, said ms. Balkhy.

“These bacteria and viruses, number one, knowledge no borders.