{"id":36648,"date":"2025-04-20T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36648\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:48:11","slug":"trump-aid-cuts-strain-response-to-health-crises-worldwide-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36648\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump aid cuts strain response to health crises worldwide: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on already acute humanitarian crises across the globe, a World Health Organization official said on Sunday, also warning against withdrawing from the UN agency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 other programmes, and announced plans to leave the WHO.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Washington, which had long been the WHO\u2019s biggest donor, did not pay its 2024 dues, and it remains unclear if the United States will meet its membership obligations for 2025<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agency, already facing a gaping deficit this year, has proposed shrinking its budget by a fifth, likely reducing its reach and workforce, according to an earlier Agence France-Presse report citing an internal email.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe 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,\u201d Hanan Balkhy, the WHO\u2019s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Farid Ahmad Barakzai (right) addressing Afghan medical staff in an inoperative Therapeutic Feeding Unit (TFU) in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. Entirely funded by Washington, the project had to shut down when the United States froze all aid. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/81778352-ab78-4656-948c-530cc6c8e367_2d1b9fe3.jpg\" title=\"Dr. Farid Ahmad Barakzai (right) addressing Afghan medical staff in an inoperative Therapeutic Feeding Unit (TFU) in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. Entirely funded by Washington, the project had to shut down when the United States froze all aid. Photo: AFP\"\/>Dr. Farid Ahmad Barakzai (right) addressing Afghan medical staff in an inoperative Therapeutic Feeding Unit (TFU) in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. Entirely funded by Washington, the project had to shut down when the United States froze all aid. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMany of these programmes have now stopped or are not going to be able to continue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on already acute humanitarian crises across the globe, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[21087,21085,32,21086,2194,10982,21084,13642,8992,1093,11144,7498,49,978,659,21083,13417,4344],"class_list":{"0":"post-36648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-cholera","9":"tag-dengue","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emergency-medical-team","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-gaza-strip","14":"tag-hanan-balkhy","15":"tag-humanitarian-crises","16":"tag-malaria","17":"tag-public-health","18":"tag-sudan","19":"tag-un","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-usaid","24":"tag-who","25":"tag-world-health-organization"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114372496880759657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}