WHO to Limit Travel, Freeze Hiring After Trump Announces Withdrawal

The Trump administration’s announcement that it would withdraw from the World Health Organization has made the agency’s financial situation “more acute,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told staff in an email sent Thursday night.

In response, the WHO, he said, will freeze recruitment, “except in the most critical areas,” and “significantly” cut back on travel expenditures.

Missions to provide technical support to countries should be “limited to the most essential.”

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