World Health Organization spends more on travel than AIDS

Re:World Health Organization spends more on travel than AIDS by gus_massa on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:03AM (#14417336)

Does the WHO buy most of the vaccines and treatments, or most of the countries buy their own doses?

This looks like a true but misleading title, like "The United Nations Security Council spends more in coffee than in tanks, battleships and bombers combined"

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:World Health Organization spends more on travel than AIDS by dogma1138 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:36PM (#14419152)

The WHO isn't a direct aid organization.

It's a political organization it defines policies and helps to execute and oversee them.

If say a country needs vaccines the WHO can help them secure funding usually through the world bank or other financial institutions as well as potentially better prices by facilitating deals with the drug companies directly.

People think that the WHO is the red cross or Doctors Without Borders or the UNHCR.

But in its mandate and in practice it's more closer to the IAEA and other similar UN organizations.

[ Parent | on HN ]