WHO spends more on travel costs than fighting AIDS

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WHO spends more on travel costs than fighting AIDS
http://nypost.com/2017/05/21/who-spends-more-on-five-star-hotels-than-fighting-aids/

At cash-starved WHO, Margaret Chan stayed in 900 euro presidential suite in Guinea, documents reveal
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=89673

WHO’s annual travel budget: $200 million
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/whos-annual-travel-budget-200-million/2017/05/21/342f0a62-3e7c-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html

AP Exclusive: Strapped UN health agency spends big on travel
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-exclusive-strapped-un-health-agency-spends-big-093315092.html

FILE-- In this Tuesday, April 7, 2015 file photo, World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan, center, visits the Rungis international market to mark the World Health Day in Rungis, outside Paris, France. WHO routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)


FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, a medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


FILE - In this Thursday, July 21, 2016 file photo, residents of the Kisenso district receive yellow fever vaccines, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


FILE - In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016 file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)


This photo shows the five-star Palm Camayenne Hotel in Conakry, Guinea, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. On a recent trip to Guinea where Margaret Chan, General Director of the World Health Organization, praised health workers in West Africa for triumphing over Ebola, she stayed in the presidential suite at the Palm Camayenne hotel in Conakry, which has an advertised price of 900 euros a night. As the cash-strapped U.N. health agency has pleaded for more money to fund its responses to health crises worldwide, it has also been struggling to get its own travel costs under control. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)


FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 file photo, Mercy Kennedy, 9, cries as community activists approach her outside her home on 72nd SKD Boulevard in Monrovia, Liberia, a day after her mother was taken away by an ambulance to an Ebola ward. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


Could we still be any less skeptical about those organizations after seeing documentary films such as Cowspiracy and What The Health?

WHO can you trust? U.S.D.A. or W.H.O.?
http://youtu.be/x-sQbUK41g0

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It's more or less the same for the rest of the United Nations, which is hardly news. People have been talking about reforming the UN for decades, but nothing happens. Too many poor and corrupt countries all have a say, and some of the major powers, the US first and foremost, haven't had much political interest or will to develop the UN. I'm sure Trump's tweets on the topic are absolutely brilliant.

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Oh well, were The Associated Press and others giving us fake news or what?

http://www.who.int/employment/staff_regulations_rules/EN_staff_regulations_and_staff_rules.pdf

http://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/budget/en/

http://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/reports/en/

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/travel-to-support-programme-work/en/

The Director-General strictly abides by WHO’s travel policies. She does not travel first class. She receives a standard per diem entitlement at UN rates. For example, on recent travel to Guinea, the Director-General’s overnight stay cost the same as all other WHO travellers – €212 – and well within UN per diem rates. On some visits, the Director-General is hosted by a Member State. In those cases; her accommodation is provided by the hosting nation at no cost to WHO. When that occurs, she receives no per diem.