Hundreds of World Health Organization officials will join Geneva donors and diplomats from Monday and control their ideas – one question – how to deal with the crisis from MPOX to cholera without their major funders, the United States.
The annual Parliament has sessions, votes and policy-making weeks, and usually shows the size of UN agencies established to tackle disease outbreaks, vaccine approvals and support health systems around the world.
The main theme has been reduced this year since US President Donald Trump began the one-year process to leave WHO with an executive order on the first day of January.
“Our goal is to focus on the high value,” Daniel Thornton, WHO’s Director of Coordinated Resource Mobilization, told Reuters.
It is debate what happens to those “high-value things.” Health officials say the WHO is working to provide guidelines to countries regarding new vaccines and treatments for conditions ranging from obesity to HIV.