WHO receives nearly $1 billion in new funding at Berlin summit

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 15, 2024 10:42 am

GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced it had received nearly $700 million in new funding and another $300 million in re-affirmed pledges during a financing summit in Berlin.

It comes under a new financing mechanism that was launched in May, which aims to raise billions of dollars for the UN agency's budget through to 2028 that can be deployed more quickly and flexibly — and hopefully save millions of lives.

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