Thus the WHO’s activities, the agency’s director-general Margaret Chan admitted in an interview with The New York Times, are no longer driven by global health priorities but rather by donor interests.83 And those interests have introduced a pronounced distortion into the WHO’s activities. While the agency’s regular budget is allocated to different health campaigns in proportion to their global health burden, according to an analysis of the agency’s 2004–2005 budget, 91 percent of the WHO’s voluntary contributions were earmarked for diseases that account for just 8 percent of global
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