[forcry]

>To save itself, WHO will have to forgo the easy path of private funding and appeasing the rich. It will have to return to democracy, to advocacy for the mass populations it was designed to serve

I don't think private funding is the problem, the problem is centralisation of power. So to save itself WHO should denounce its power to issue medical guidelines for the world.

[lmilcin]

First, there is no centralisation of power simply because WHO doesn't have any power. Guidelines are not power.

Any influence (not power) they may have comes exclusively from trust. No trust == no influence.

Second, WHO cannot "denounce" itself, for the simple reason it would be against its overt mission.

The actual solution is to ensure integrity of the guidance that they are providing, which is necessary step to earn back the trust they have undermined.

When governments can trust the organization is science based and not steered by politics it can perform its mission, which is to provide guidance to countries and organisations that don't have resources to do it themselves.