WHO’s Fairy Dust Financing (Laurie Garrett, CFR)

With the world now facing epidemics of yellow fever and Zika virus, both of this week’s high-powered gatherings of the G-7 leaders in Ise-Shima, Japan, and the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva had outbreak control placed high on their agendas. But it will take a lot more than minor reorganization and promises of cash to bring the World Health Organization (WHO) and its 194 member nations up to readiness status for these and future epidemics. That kind of preparedness begins with leadership and mutual trust between the institutions of public health, political leaders, and the populations they are supposed to serve. This is a feat that WHO has not, by any measure, accomplished

http://www.cfr.org/international-organizations-and-alliances/s-fairy-dust-financing/p37913