WHO、経費削減や事業見直しへ 最大拠出国の米脱退で
[ジュネーブ/ロンドン 24日 ロイター] - トランプ米大統領が世界保健機関(WHO)から脱退する大統領令に署名したことを受け、WHOが経費の節減や事業の優先付けの見直しを実施する。テドロス事務局長が内部メモで職員に伝えた。
米国はWHOの最大の資金拠出国。ロイターが閲覧した23日付のメモでテドロス氏は「今回の発表により、WHOの財政状況はより深刻になった」と述べた。
経費節減策として、会議は基本的にオンラインにして出張経費を圧縮し、重要な分野を除いて採用を停止するなどの措置を取る。「一連の措置は包括的なものではなく、いずれさらなる措置が発表される」した。
WHOの広報担当者は、内部メモを確認した。
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Emma Farge reports on the U.N. beat and Swiss news from Geneva since 2019. She has produced a string of exclusives on diplomacy, the environment and global trade and covered Switzerland’s first war crimes trial. Her Reuters career started in 2009 covering oil swaps from London and she has since written about the West African Ebola outbreak, embedded with U.N. troops in north Mali and was the first reporter to enter deposed Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s estate. She co-authored a winning story for the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize on Russia’s diplomatic isolation in 2022 and was also part of a team of journalists nominated in 2012 as Pulitzer finalists in the international reporting category for coverage of the Libyan revolution. She holds a BA from Oxford University (First) and an MSc from the LSE in International Relations. She is currently on the board of the press association for UN correspondents in Geneva (ACANU).
Jen is the Global Health Correspondent at Reuters, covering everything from pandemics to the rise of obesity worldwide. Since joining the news agency in 2022, her award-winning work includes coverage of gender-affirming care for adolescents in the UK and a global investigation with colleagues into how contaminated cough syrup killed hundreds of children in Africa and Asia. She previously worked at the Telegraph newspaper and Channel 4 News in the UK, and spent time as a freelancer in Myanmar and the Czech Republic.