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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

Huge staff cuts at WHO will leave world ‘less healthy and safe’, experts warn

A person in a white protective suit with hood, face mask, goggles, elbow-length gloves and wearing a decontamination spray backpack enters a house.
A World Health Organization worker decontaminates a house whose owner tested positive for Ebola in Beni, in 2018. Photograph: Sopa/LightRocket/Getty

The loss of more than 2,000 jobs at the World Health Organization (WHO) “will leave the world less healthy and less safe”, experts have warned.

The global health body said it expected to lose 2,371 posts – nearly a quarter of its workforce – by June 2026 as it deals with budget cuts after the US withdrawal from the organisation in January. At that point the WHO had 9,401 staff members.

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