S funding, the World Health Organization chief on Monday appealed to member countries to support its extremely modest request for a USD 2.1 billion annual budget by putting that sum into perspective next to outlays for ad campaigns for tobacco or the cost of war.
Two-point-one billion dollars is the price of one stealth bomber, to kill people.And USD 2.1 billion is one-quarter of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising and promotion every single year.
Two-point-one billion dollars is the equivalent of global military expenditure every eight hours, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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