US decides to hold contribution payments to WHO
The organization that first declared a health emergency due to COVID-19 was the World Health Organization (WHO). Being a victim of this global virus Trump, the president of US, declared that their contributions to the WHO would be put to a halt because of certain factors that have stirred more risk to the people of US.
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The US bags the position of the biggest assessed contributor this year again!
The charts below show that the US has been the biggest assessed contributor to WHO followed by China, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, and Brazil. Even after withdrawing payment because of the recent events, the US is still the highest assessed contributor to the WHO.
Assessed contributions and voluntary supplementary assessed contributions
WHO is basically a funded organization where two types of contributions called assessed contributions, and voluntary supplementary assessed contributions are welcomed. When the countries contribute to this organization based on their country's total wealth and population, it is called an assessed contribution. In contrast, the second one is completely voluntary contribution that is made by some of the countries.
