Before you take a cheap shot at the World Health Organisation for its handling of #COVIDー19, there’s a few facts you should know.
Yes, the #WHO should be held accountable for decisions made during this pandemic, but let's see what Trump is actually cutting funding towards. 1/10

- Measles vaccines, produced by the WHO, have saved 20 million infant lives since 2000.
- Since the @WHO was founded in 1948, infant mortality has dropped from 1 in 5 babies to 1 in 250.
- At that time, small pox infected 50m people per year, now small pox is eradicated. 2/10

- Since 1948, cases of polio have reduced by 99.9%.
- Life expectancy rose from 42 to 78 yrs.
- 300 million people suffering chronic hepatitis B & C can live comfortable lives thanks to research by the WHO.
- The WHO cultivated effective vaccines for meningitis and Ebola. 3/10

- The WHO has delivered 21 million life-saving HIV treatments to people living in poverty.
- The WHO forced nations to come together for the first International AIDS conference in 1985.
- Between 2005 and 2015, WHO initiatives led to a 50% reduction in HIV mortality. 4/10

- The WHO produced the first ever malaria vaccine, a disease which kills over 400,000 people a year, 93% in undeveloped African nations.
- Research from the WHO caused a 25% reduction in maternal mortality from 2005-2015.
- The WHO monitors air pollution in 4000 cities. 5/10

- The WHO oversaw the worldwide control of infantile diarrhea with oral rehydration therapy.
- WHO collaborated with the world chemical industry in the 1960s to develop new insecticides for fighting onchocerciasis/river blindness and for treating schistosomiasis. 6/10

- The WHO drafted the Convention on Tobacco Control (adopted in 2003), drastically reducing global tobacco consumption.
- Non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease make up 70% of global deaths, testament to the WHO’s contagious disease mitigation. 7/10

The WHO screens 5000 potential outbreaks every month. 5000. Every month.
Yes, they didn't act quick enough to stop COVID-19, but did they stop the virus that never became a pandemic? You'd be well served to think so. 8/10

While sovereign nations are caught up in the short-termism of immediate national health concerns and domestic politics, the WHO is there, working quietly on genuine solutions for long-term problems. 9/10

What has always held the WHO back from reaching its potential? A lack of funding. And now the WHO loses its largest donor, in the United States. Right when it needs it most.

A world without the World Health Organisation, is a much less healthy world. 10/10