PHM-Exch> Future of WHO hangs in the balance BMJ

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: David G Legge <dglegge01 at gmail.com>


BMJ 2012; 345 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e6877 (Published 25
October 2012)****

WHO is in crisis. Unless member states can be persuaded to “untie” their
donations and give the organisation leeway to control its budget and set
priorities WHO will slide further into irrelevance with disastrous
consequences for global health, warns David Legge****

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A substantial shortfall in the funds available for basic administrative
functions led WHO’s director general, Margaret Chan, to initiate another
reform of the WHO in 2010. Although the reform programme has expanded to
include priority setting, governance, and management, financing is the
fundamental problem. The process of reform is also bedevilled by the same
problem that led to the funding crisis in the first place—a switch in power
from the assembly of member states to donors (including some member states
as well as other donors) with specific interests. This article outlines the
problems and what the reforms are trying to achieve.****

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Read on:
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.e6877?ijkey=JdP6K96sTGOfuZ2&keytype=ref*
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