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WHO announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts

A sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) displayed at their headquarters in Geneva on March 13, 2025. [AFP]

The World Health Organisation chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars.

"The sudden drop in income has left us with a large salary gap and no choice but to reduce the scale of our work and workforce," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told member states, according to a transcript of his remarks.

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