GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said its workforce would shrink by about a quarter – or over 2,000 jobs – by the middle of next year as it seeks to implement reforms after its top donor, the United States, announced its departure.
The WHO projects that its workforce will shrink by 2,371 posts by June 2026 due to job cuts as well as retirements and departures, according to a presentation set to be shown to its member states on Wednesday.
The slides also showed that the Geneva-based body has a $1.06 billion hole in its 2026-2027 budget, or nearly a quarter of the total required, down from an estimated $1.7 billion in May.
The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Emma Farge, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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