UN health agency spends more on travel than on AIDS and malaria combined

[Weatherman2020]

The United Nations is a slush fund for politicians and bureaucrats too untalented or unliked to hold office in their own countries. Time to cut all funding and tell them they have 90 days to move their HQ out of NY and move it to Sudan.

According to the Associated Press, the WHO routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses—more than what it spends to fight AIDS and hepatitis ($70.5 million), tuberculosis ($59 million), and malaria ($61 million) combined.

UN health agency spends more on travel than on AIDS and malaria combined

 

[waltky]

Malaria Outbreak at Kenyan Refugee Camp Kills 4 ...

Malaria Outbreak Kills 4 at Kenyan Refugee Camp
October 20, 2017 - A malaria outbreak has killed at least four people at a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, according to local residents and health officials.

Hundreds of people have come down with the infectious disease at the Kalobeyei refugee complex in Kenya's Turkana County. "Already four to six people have died due to malaria," Galama Guyo, a health care professional at Kalobeyei, told VOA's Horn of Africa service. "Weekly, we report more than 200 malaria cases, especially people with low body resistance [immunity]."

An aerial view shows houses at the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana District, northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi, June 20, 2015. A malaria outbreak in the nearby Kalobeyei refugee complex has killed at least 4 people.​

Health care providers do not have enough drugs to treat patients, and there is no major hospital in the area, so some patients have to travel to up to 30 kilometers for treatment, he said. The type of malaria hitting the camps is plasmodium falciparum, one of four types common in the Horn of Africa, said Guyo.

The U.N. refugee agency is tracking the situation at Kalobeyei and the nearby town of Kakuma, says the agency's communication director in Nairobi, Yvonne Ndege. "Our health partners have mobilized some resources to ensure they procure enough drugs and diagnostic kits to treat the increased cases of malaria that we have seen in Kakuma and Kalobeyei," she said. "UNHCR is also planning to provide additional drugs to help address the situation." Located in a very arid region, Kalobeyei hosts thousands of African immigrants, mostly from Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan.

Malaria Outbreak Kills 4 at Kenyan Refugee Camp

 

[Baron]

Who needs UN today?
This outdated organization shall be closed.

 

[baileyn45]

No one should be surprised by this. It is the nature of bureaucracy. Spend it, request more.