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Nearly two weeks after the US withdrawal, the UN health agency’s executive board meeting will be anything but business as usual. The board, convening in Geneva from 2 to 7 February, will wade through a packed agenda with typical items ranging from immunisation to mental health to governance

Earlier this month, senior officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists in a newly refurbished pressroom at the agency’s headquarters that its finances were “stable”. Following a year that saw its biggest donor withdraw as a member, forcing it to cut 25 per cent of its staff, its financial chief said that 85…