Where Does Global Health Funding Come From and Where Does It Go?

All WHO programs, except the Assembly and the Executive Board, received EBFs.15 Article 57 of the WHO Constitution of 1948 states that "the Health Assembly, or the Board acting for and on its behalf, may accept and administer gifts and bequests made to the Organization, provided that the conditions to which they are subject are acceptable to the Health Assembly or the Board and are consistent with. [...] In response to Resolution 55/215 "Towards a Global Partnership,"17 the United Nations General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to "seek the views of all Member States on ways and means of enhancing cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners, in particular the private sector, on how to increase cooperation with the United Nations.” The introduction to the Secretary-Gen. [...] This prompted Mann's decision to resign from his position in 1994.40 The quick appointment of American Michael Merson to replace Jonathan Mann was not enough to assuage the GPA donors' distrust of WHO's handling of funds, and in 1996 the donors pulled from the WHO the WHO program that had the largest financial resources then and was addressing the biggest health problem of the time. [...] These have been standardized and adopted without adequately consulting WHO Member States and despite concerns raised by civil society stakeholders."69 The initiative for the creation of the WHO Foundation seems to have come from Thomas Zeltner, Chairman of the WHO Executive Board at the time, now founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, as stated by the Director of WHO in. [...] Will the G8 and in its extension the G20 make the decisions and impose their vision of how global health will be managed? The question that we could ask ourselves, to conclude, is how are we going to preserve the public interest, in defense of common public goods and the protection of human rights in the activities of prevention, preparedness, and response to present and future pandemics? Recent i.