The World Health Organization has been forced to cut dozens of staff in Europe over the past few weeks, as the US withdrawal continues to hit the agency hard.
Speaking at the World Vaccine Congress Europe in Amsterdam on 15 October, Robb Butler, WHO Europe’s director of the division of communicable diseases, environment, and health, said 32 staff had been cut from his division in the past three weeks. “We’ve taken a very heavy hit. The politicisation of health is a very raw and real thing in the WHO European region at the moment,” he said.
The Trump administration withdrew from WHO in January,1 saying that the UN agency had mishandled major international health crises. The US had previously contributed …
