Fauci says the United States will cease reducing US staff counts at the WHO and will pay its financial obligations to it.According to Fauci, the United States will support the “ACT Accelerator” — an umbrella effort including COVAX that also focuses on distributing diagnostic tools and therapeutics for the coronavirus to countries around the world.
The first batches of coronavirus vaccines are expected to go to poorer countries in February under the COVAX scheme run by the WHO and the GAVI vaccine alliance, WHO officials said this week, even as they raise concerns thatThe United States will remain a member of the WHO and"fulfill its financial obligations", Fauci said, adding it would also work with the other 193 member states on reforming the UN agency.
Biden's predecessor Donald Trump halted funding to the WHO, where the United States is the largest donor, and announced a process to withdraw from the agency in July 2021 in what was seen as part of a broader US retreat from multilateral organizations."WHO is a family of nations and we are all glad that the US is staying in the family," Tedros said.
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