Despite some criticism of the WHO's handling of the crisis, many say threatening to cut funds during the biggest pandemic since the Spanish Flu is the wrong approach — including Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation is a major voluntary donor to the WHO.
Twitter @BillGates: Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs @WHO now more than ever. Humanitarian group CARE said abandoning the WHO in this time of crisis"will only put more lives at risk".
Yes !!! DefundWHO DefundUN DefundEU DefundWTO DefundABC
I think director-general of WHO should offer his resignation. He didn’t do a good job in handling this crisis
WHO should not have taken CCP word as gospel. The death toll in Wuhan and analysis from doctors in Wuhan speaks for its self!! They should have listened to the Chinese doctors analysing the actual situation. The same doctors that CCP punished for trying to warn ppl.
The ABC is so predictable.
Hmmm 🤔 China will have to pay more money to continue it’s control over WHO and the USA would save money that was being wasted by a Chinese government controlled group
My take out if this story, apart from huge $$ the US gives, is ‘China gives 0.21 per cent.’ Seriously? The country with massive population/budget (who delivered this virus to the world) gives the least $. We are such wankers if we think this is ok...
Its just creating a power gap China would fill, WHO is still integral to be supporting
ONE thing you are not saying-This is next year budget NOT NOW
Think what actually being ignored is that the USA behind in its payments to the WHO any way so one could think he trying to save on tow years of payments. So might be a saving cash more. But trump has far more intel in China then who so get real
Defunding the WHO is terrible but better than staying in a bad marriage. Especially when the partner living off your salary is in bed with a rival.
WHO is redundant.
I bet labor is rethinking their links with China at the moment
Someone knows what WHO actually does?
Half money for their six star hotel and business seat airline! Did you help your country? ? Now, poor countries are the excuses in your mouth only. What did you do for our globe?
The entire WORLD needs to STOP 🛑 FUNDING the crock of a so-called 'World-Health-Organisation', the WHO! Do some proper research into exactly who is the WHO and what they spend all of their funding on... You should be truly shocked!
If immediate disaster then Dr Tedros should do the right. Resign. Depoliticize WHO. It’s not time for international politics at WHO. Both US or China must STOP politicizing Healthcare.
Trump is being a bully and trying to blame WHO for his slow response to SARS CoV 2 COVIDIOTS
Why, because this guy won't make his $500,000 a year salary 🙄🙄🙄
The entire UN as Institution has become a bloated corrupt useless quango for retired corrupt politicians ... dominated by corrupt dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. When Saudi Arabia sits on Human rights Commission, it's time to scrap it and start a new.
Don’t know it could get much worse
Defunding WHO would be a disaster for all. If we can’t support others in need, think about preventing the creation & sustainment of devastating disease reservoirs. Keep essential funds flowing, dismiss the incompetents who oversaw the recent debacle & replace with quality people
good bye W.H.O.and U N O .
WHO have themselves to blame
...right, just like the US economy was supposed to plummet into a depression if Trump was elected POTUS. More hate-inspired scaremongering. bias
I'M SURE THEM LYING FOR CHINA HAD NO NEGATIVE EFFECT WITH THE WUHAN VIRUS RIGHT? THEY SHOULD BE REWARDED FOR ASSISTING CHINA IN KILLING EVERYONE
Why is the ABC so resistant to criticizing the real bad actors of this disaster the CCP and the WHO?
The US scapegoating WHO and China just to cover their incompetence in handling the COVID-19 crisis. China locked won Wuhan in early Jan and WHO has warned the world to take serious precautions but no one cares. Karma is real. What comes around, goes around.
The WHO will be forced to act for the Planet and not for the Chinese Goverment....
The world population is decimated but Trump gets re-elected?
More reason to stop. Let the world wake up.
Yes, the bureaucrats might have to fly commercial, or even, and let’s hope it never gets this far, economy.
The WHO is corrupt. Any funding cut is justified until they become an independent organization which is highly unlikely.
Message to WHO The ChinaVirus WuhanVirus is past immediate it’s already disastrous in every country in the world. 137K have died and over 2M have been infected. You should be demanding China close wet markets and open the Wuhan lab DefundWHO
People who are talking about wet markets probably need to visit one first. Wet market does not equate to a market selling exotic animals/meat. Btw China has already banned wildlife trade. Not that it's easy to enforce. Also WHO has no jurisdiction over wet markets in China.
Good
The WHO failed us and that's that.
You’re kidding. The only issue will be a lesser payoff for the corrupt hierarchy. It’s one of Trumps best decisions. Ask Xi Jinping for the money.
so many opinions .. no solutions 😞
this is not the time for blame games .. everyone should be working together
Donald was warned in January, played down the threat until March and now USA is suffering. He's looking for a scapegoat to hide his negligence.
Thanks for sharing. Excellent speech. Please watch: Miss Canada Anastasia Lin speech in Oxford—We Would Start A New Cold War With China
China contribution to WHO is $20M and 1.4 billion population, Australia's contribution is $53M and 25M population, interesting UN funding formula.
The lives of 100 of thousands of innocent people will die to save Donald Trumps presidency, where are all the guns in America.
WHO The Worst Health Organisation has shown in this pandemic that it's systematically corrupt and incapable of performing the basic primary function it was set up to perform. Defund it, start again with nation states that actually cares about global human health (eg. Taiwan).
WHO made their bed, now they can lie in it...
Its 15% of there money isnt it?
China could step in and fill the funding gap. They caused this mess
It's not going to happen. Trump doesn't have the authority to withhold funds from the WHO, because the funds are appropriated by Congress. Similar to the hold he placed on funds to support Ukraine. He was impeached for that!
Then sack that WHO Boss. His political bias has cost thousands if lives!.
WHO is a disaster taken over by the Chinese and loaded with graft and corruption. Similar applies to the UN. They have gone past their useful life.
Well stop brown nosing to the Chinese government
The WHO is a Disgrace telling the World for weeks there was No Pandemic Then by the Time they Declared It It Was To Late Then To Tell the World China Was Very Proactive In it’s Handling of the Outbreak & the Wet Markets are Safe - How Disgusting & Deplorable the WHO Is
THATS WHAT Tedros Adhanom SHOULD HAVE FORCUSED ON INSTEAD OF SHOWERING CHINA WITH PRAISES
Every public health organisation in the world disagrees with Trump here. Doctors too. We would be far worse off without WHO actions. Countless more deaths. It’s only politicians trying to save face and find a scapegoat that are claiming WHO failed. I wonder why...
Hi, don’t worry the pres is only sounding off, the USA will always fund the WHO. Cheers
Literally no one cares what happens to the elites right now
Maybe WHO should condemn wet markets.... Just a thought....
Go ask China to fund you
Counties closing borders and withdrawing from United Nations! Is the world on a war footing? Get off this path Australia WHO WW3
rich countries r paying the cost of WHO when they dont get any benefit Where was WHO when Ebola was there ? MSF were sending volunteer doctors
Goes to show money controls the world and when you aren’t in control then take your money back. To all those low and middle income earners, don’t forget your place - at the bottom of the pyramid.
Sick Communist joke !
Often think that in cases such as this it’s more incompetence than anything. Bureaucracies become so bloated that they can’t function quickly. Needs to be made more efficient and focus on its remit.
have other countries step up.. and pay more..it's messed up the U S pays 10 x more then China.. like the U N , America finances most of it.. F them to..
The UN must take action, if that is possible to shut down and restructure the WHO. The current body is completely corrupt.
The ABC always the apologist for China and anything left. Defund the WHO and the ABC Neither represent the people, have over inflated salaries, first class junkets etc Only a tiny portion actually goes to those in need. Both unelected fat useless bureaucracies.
Could or will?
Get China to weigh in more.
TL;DR/ignore the comments. Full of astroturfing nutjobs. Fund WHO/UN. Keep Earth open and safe.
Australia should stop funding WHO too.
Junkets will stop, bullshit and lies will stop and people will actually see what has really happened.....they need to be audited so deeply we can all understand what they have spent OTHER peoples money on.........
Hit Bill 'Mengele' Gates up for the cash.
The WHO, must have their own money. Right. ?
More disastrous than this?
The WHO were a British band in the 60 s And they were out of control to 👍👍
Or what ?!?! Covid 20 made in CCP incorporates WHO
When an organ is fatally ill, it needs to be cured, removed or transplanted.
The Politicians and Media are in the pockets of China the quicker you all realise that the better we will all be ,time to clean out Canberra and the Main Stream Media. Watch Corona Virus press conference in Washington live on YouTube listen to ABC report about it nothing like it.
U.S. funding for U.N. and WHO is disproportionate. They seem to be paying for organisations that are dominated by totalitarian regimes. With nations like China and Russia having veto power maybe it is about time we looked at suitability of entire UN.
Fake news
WHO and TEDROS are corrupt. money should be given to WHO under conditions. WHO and TEDROS refused needed covid aid to TAIWAN because china refuses to aknowledge Taiwan as independent of china. This is but one example of countless ways WHO needs to make some changes.
What can be worse than what the WHO did? They ignore Taiwan's warnings Dec'19. They rejected Travel Bans and advised the ChineseVirus will not pass human to human. WHO congratulated China publicly. Stop funding the WHO until TedrosResign ChinaMustPay ChineseBioterrorism
Ask China for the money
WHO staff will fly economy instead of business class.
Australia contributes more to the corrupt WHO than China.
Fake News. The only disastrous consequence will be for the bureaucrats. TedrosResign When the ABCaustralia leftists, Kevin Chaos, Bill Gates ultra globalist and the pro China tell you to support something You know that the opposite is the right thing to do. Stop funding WHO
They could ask Taiwan for a contribution
The World Health Organisation deserve what they get. They should have never condoned the reopening of the wet markets in China where this virus come from.
ABC running cover for a corrupt institution. Who would have guessed it?
They stop being a CCP propaganda arm, stop travelling at the front of the plane and stop booking into Presidential Suites at 5 star hotels?
Pretty sure that if the WHO's head numpty went on TV and stated the covid numbers for Taiwan, and actually used the word Taiwan while explaining the numbers, everyone would be that little bit happier about sending them cash.
Immediately disastrous for WHO. The gravy train derailed. A new global health organisation will arise from the ashes. Just without countries like China that are a risk to global health but including countries like Taiwan that would be an asset to global health.
The WHO has been going since April, 1948, so why does Trump want to not support them ? even China should, this organisation helped them during the 1958-1961 famine when people were starving to death & their fat beloved leader ignored them.
They've caused all this death and despair in the world while being funded, I see no downside at this point to taking that funding away.
The WHO prefers to play the blame game & the woe is me tactic rather than take responsibility for their disgraceful handling of this preventable pandemic. You reap the seeds you sow WHO!
Then the cnts better get their sht togeather and do what they're supposed to do instead of playing publicist for the CCP.
Its disappointing knowing our government and media are on the wrong side of this. We have been corrupted.
An utter disaster! Just what will all those billionaires do with the tuxedos and tiaras that they trot up to the banqets in, not to mention the caterers who supply the Dom Perignon and Beluga caviar. Oh the humanity 😱
The President's veto power is significant because Congress rarely overrides vetoes—out of 1,484 regular vetoes since 1789, only 7.1%, or 106, have been overridden. Will the Powerful choke the freedom from the people and strain the liberty in our Constitution. The Truth will tell.
I’m sure it would be for funding their salaries and first class travel.
Given that Trump is a businessman & he played hard ball with china & it worked to get a better trade deal for the US with them, he may well be using the same tactic to get the who to address their short comings
Why does this not have the opinion ?
Fk em
Well u should have thought of that before all your bs ducks n drakes
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