Notable Quotes
The cuts were made abruptly and cruelly. I know cuts won't be reversed overnight, but it is critical that we restore some of the funding. — Davos, January 2026
I don't think the U.S. will be coming back to WHO in the near future. The world needs the World Health Organization. — Reuters interview at Davos, January 2026
The cuts were made abruptly and cruelly. I know cuts won't be reversed overnight, but it is critical that we restore some of the funding. — Davos, January 2026
“If we let funding for basic health slip now, we’ll pay for it with millions of preventable child deaths in the decades ahead.”
On polio eradication: “We are closer than ever to ending this disease, but the last mile is the most expensive and the most politically fragile.”
Gates warned that aid cuts risk 'the first rise in child mortality this century' if global health investments are not restored.([ft.com](https://www.ft.com/content/e3f00645-63ee-469e-aa0a-8e82c442519a?utm_source=openai))