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by dogma1138 3316 days ago
The WHO isn't a direct aid organization.

It's a political organization it defines policies and helps to execute and oversee them.

If say a country needs vaccines the WHO can help them secure funding usually through the world bank or other financial institutions as well as potentially better prices by facilitating deals with the drug companies directly.

People think that the WHO is the red cross or Doctors Without Borders or the UNHCR.

But in its mandate and in practice it's more closer to the IAEA and other similar UN organizations.