A doctor for a role in the Trump government has given a fascinating insight into the motives of the president to get America from the World Health Organization.
Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the WHO in one of his first actions as president, referring to the narrow ties of the agency with China, shortcomings during COVID and the fact that he believes that the US became by the organization torn off.
But speaking on the podcast of DailyMail.com Welcome to Magaland this week, Dr. Asem Malhotra that there were also concerns among those in the incoming administration about the tires of the agency with the commercial industry.
He emphasized the more than 80 percent of the financing of who depends on 'voluntary contributions', which means that an amount that is freely given by donors, whether they are Member States, NGOs, philanthropic organizations or other private entities.
This financing model is in contrast with when the WHO was first launched in 1948 and the budget was established by the annual membership costs of countries. Dr. Malhotra said there were more and more concerns about influence and conflicts of interest.
Dr. Malhotra, who is good friends with RFK JR, Trump's choice for secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, used the fact that Bill Gates is one of the greatest donors as onen example.
A doctor who has been set up for a role in the Trump administration has revealed why the president decided to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, where the involvement of Bill Gates is a highest concern
In 2024, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $ 689 million to the United Nations Agency, making the Gates the biggest contribution after the US, who paid $ 958 million.
But Dr. Malhotra emphasizes that the billionaire 'has been heavily invested in ultra-processed foods' that feed the worldwide crisis of chronic diseases.
The submission of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Q1 2024 entry shows interests of $ 604 million in Coca-Cola shares and almost $ 97 million in Kraft Heinz, the maker of Kraft Mac and Cheese, a range of meat such as Oscar Mayer And Jell-O.
Gates is also in favor of synthetic meat, investing in companies such as Beyond Meat, Hampton Creek Foods and the Fynd of Nature, despite the growing concern about the health effects of these ultracroced alternatives.
Dr. Malhotra says that the support of Gates of ultra-processed junk food causes a problem, because “these are the people who really direct the WHO policy.”
Despite the support of Kamala Harris during the 2024 elections, Gates met Trump in January after he was chosen for a dinner in New York to fill it in at work.
The founder of Microsoft said that a large part of the three -hour discussion was focused on global health and went to his efforts to fight HIV.
Another critical subject was the continuous fight against Polio, a disease that has long been aimed at the foundation of Gates.
Gates said that Trump was 'fascinated' by the complexity of achieving extermination and, he claims, seemed enthusiastic to investigate how his administration could support the effort.
The WHO receives financing from the Member States who pay annual membership data.
The Member States pay what 'assessed contributions' are mentioned, a percentage of GDP of a country has been agreed every two years.
Usually these amounts cover less than one fifth of whom the total budget, which means that the WHO relies on 'voluntary contributions' – those who are freely given by donors.
These voluntary contributions are usually intended for specific projects or diseases, which means who cannot freely decide how to use them.
For example, Polio exchanging has consistently been one of the WHO -funded programs, especially because many of the contributions of the Gates Foundation are aimed at that cause.
Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO collaboration center for National and Worldwide Health Act, told Euro News in 2023: 'who therefore cannot determine the global health agenda and offer rich donors, not only rich nations in Europe and North America, but but Also rich philanthropics such as the Gates Foundation. '
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is responsible for more than 88 percent of the total amount donated by philanthropic foundations to the health agency.
Other contributors are the Bloomberg Family Foundation (3.5 percent), the UK's Wellcare Trust (1.1 percent) and the Rockefeller Foundation (0.8 percent).
The British cardiologist Dr. Asem Malhotra, who also has close ties with RFK JR, Trump's Pick for secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, emphasizes that billionaire Gates is one of the greatest donors
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $ 689 million to the United Nations Agency in 2024, making the Gates the biggest contribution after the US
The former director -general Dr. Margaret Chan of the WHO previously hinted that the financing of the agency is supplied with connected scaences.
In a conference in 2015 she explained: 'As an organization, only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds.
'[The] Other 70 percent I have to take a hat and go the world to beg for money.
“And when they give us the money, they are strongly linked to their preferences what they like.”
In the meantime, an article underlined in nature that was published in 2017, why 'time is ripe to reform the WHO'.
The piece is: 'A problem is that the WHO has become dangerously dependent on voluntary contributions, which now make up more than 80 percent of its total budget.
'The majority of this money is supplied with strings associated with their own priorities, making it almost impossible for the WHO to have a lot of control in his own agenda.
“As a result, the WHO programs have spread but diluted.”
Dr. Malhotra says that Trump's government wants the who exists and play a role, but until it becomes independent, I believe it is certainly the right step to make a statement by financing the WHO from all these countries to move in. 100 percent. '
President Trump told a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday that he is considering withdrawing his decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization Days after signing an executive order to do this
The executive order of Trump sets a 12 -month notice period for the US to leave the United Nations Health Agency and to stop all financial contributions to her work.
But already domestic health agencies such as the CDC have been told to break communication with the agency.
The United States are by far the largest financial stacker of the WHO and contributes around 18 percent of the total financing. Who's most recent budget of two years, before 2024-2025, was $ 6.8 billion.
US departure is likely to bring programs throughout the organization, according to various experts, both inside and outside the WHO, in particular those who tackle tuberculosis, the world's greatest infectious diseases, as well as HIV/AIDS and other emergency situations in the health.
“This is the darkest day for global health I have ever experienced,” said Gostin last week.
Trump's order said the administration would stop negotiations on the WHO -Pandemic Convention while the withdrawal is underway.
US government personnel who works with the WHO will be recalled and re -assigned, and the government will look for partners to take over the necessary WHO activities, according to the order.
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