WMA Council Resolution on Public Health Funding Worldwide

Adopted by the 229th WMA Council Session, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 2025

PREAMBLE

Health care all over the world is under threat. Funding that has improved health by securing vaccines, medicines and health care professionals is being cut back or even completely dismantled. This creates a huge health risk, not only for those that cannot afford the costs themselves but also because this will increase the spread of communicable diseases like HIV, TB and malaria, and so puts everyone at risk. This is in addition to the threat that is caused by armed conflicts.

The WMA calls upon the leaders of the world to restore basic health care funding together. If the world sits back, we shall be confronted with a large increase of diseases and deaths.

Countries like the USA have made huge efforts in the last decades. Now, all nations shall have to contribute together to rescue our basic health system for those in need. 

RECOMMENDATION

The World Medical Association urges world leaders to contribute together to the funding of public health facilities that improve health by securing vaccines, medicines and health care professionals and by doing so, help prevent a potential increase in the spread of communicable diseases like HIV, TB and malaria, which pose a risk to everyone. Nations have to contribute together to rescue basic healthcare systems for those in need.