A WHO spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the email.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is freezing hiring, suspending investments and cutting non-essential travel in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to take the US out of the global body.
The US withdrawal “has made our financial situation more acute,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told staff in an email seen by Bloomberg dated Jan 23. Plans include “cost redundancies and efficiencies,” he wrote.
