aids hepatitis: Despite introducing new rules to try to curb its expansive travel budget, senior officials have complained internally that U.N. staffers are breaking the rules by booking perks like business class airplane tickets and rooms in five-star hotels, according to The Japan Times. Last year, WHO spent about 71 million on AIDS and hepatitis. As the cash-strapped U.N. health agency pleads for more money to fund its responses to health crises worldwide, it has also been struggling to get its own travel costs under control. On malaria, it spent 61 million. Still, some health programs do get exceptional funding the agency spends about 450 million trying to wipe out polio every year. And to slow tuberculosis, WHO invested 59 million.
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