Tedros Adhanom: Global health financing "is experiencing the most severe turmoil in memory"

Jin10 reported on May 2 that the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference in Geneva on the 1st, “We are experiencing the most severe turbulence in global health financing in memory.” He stated that the sudden cut in overseas development assistance, coupled with a challenging trade and economic environment, is causing chaos in the public health sector. Tedros warned using neglected tropical diseases as an example, saying that such diseases affect over 1 billion people, posing particularly severe threats to the poorest and most marginalized communities, and that progress made in addressing these diseases faces the risk of regression.