World Health Organization announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts

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The Director General of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the cuts in US funds left this UN agency with a huge budget deficit, forcing it to reduce operations and lay off staff. “The sudden loss of income left us with a large wage gap and no other option than to reduce the scale of our work and staff,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the Member States, according to a transcript of the statement. The United Nations health agency …

World Health Organization announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts

The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars. Morgan Ayre reports.

The UN will reduce the number of operations and lay off personnel because of cuts in funding from the United States.