The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to shed 1,282 staff worldwide by June 2026 as a result of budget cuts in the United States and other countries. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox More than 1,000 additional positions will be eliminated through natural attrition, retirement and early retirement, said the Geneva-based organisation. The most essential functions have been identified and "the financial and human resources" aligned with them, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told member states. + Could private funding help WHO close budget gap? Each office has been given a budget to which it has had to adapt, he said, while the number of departments has been halved, as has the number of members of the management. + UNICEF to move 300 posts from Geneva to Rome As he had already announced, travel has been limited and equipment has not been replaced. "Without this approach, we estimate that we would have had to shed around 2,900 employees", insisted ...
