CORONAVIRUS | Despite additional funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates says any gap left in the WHO's funding would be very hard for others to fill.
| Pulling funding from the World Health Organization is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by the Covid-19 disease pandemic, Melinda Gates said on Wednesday.
The Gates Foundation is the second largest donor to the WHO behind the US. Gates said earlier that cutting WHO funding in a health crisis was "as dangerous as it sounds". Alongside support for new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines, the Gates money is primarily aimed at helping poorer countries and vulnerable populations handle the oncoming and spreading pandemic and the poverty it will cause.
"Whenever a health crisis hits like this, it's the people on the margins that it hits the very most," she said.
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