00:00A significant part of WHO's response to health emergencies in Uganda, DRC, Gaza, Sudan, and
00:09elsewhere is supported by funding from the United States.
00:14As we have said, we regret the announcement that the United States intends to withdraw
00:20from WHO, and we would welcome the opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue.
00:26The sudden suspension of U.S. funding and the sudden disengagement of U.S. institutions
00:32is also affecting the response to global efforts to eradicate polio and the response to mpox
00:39epidemics in Africa.
00:42In Myanmar, almost 60,000 people, most of them women and children, have been left with
00:47no access to life-saving services.
00:50And we have limited information about the spread of avian influenza among dairy cattle
00:57in the U.S. or human cases.
01:00CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet,
01:06FluID, that they've been providing information for many, many years.
01:11And we have not had direct communication with CDC related to influenza.
01:15We are communicating with them, but we haven't heard anything back.
01:18We are confident that the U.S. has detection capabilities to identify zoonotic influenza
01:25in animals, in humans, who are working with exposed animals or infected animals.
01:33We encourage the dialogue to continue with us and that technical exchange.
01:38I mean, the communication from CDC stopped around the 24th of January.
01:43But up until that, I want to be really clear.
01:46There are incredible scientists at U.S. CDC and across U.S. institutions, as well as the
01:51institutions in all of the member states that we work with.
01:54We hope that this exchange resumes soon.
01:58We are continuing to reach out to our colleagues in the U.S. government agencies.
02:04We haven't heard back from them.
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