Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) today announced a €130 million contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO) for 2023, reinforcing Germany’s role as a global health leader and one of WHO’s strongest supporters, according to a press release issued by WHO.

„We are happy to contribute €130 million to WHO this year. For us it is clear: WHO has played a major role in the successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to protect the world from future health emergencies,” Dr Lauterbach said.

The contribution supports WHO in key priority areas such as antimicrobial resistance, health emergencies, health-systems strengthening and WHO reforms. The funds will be channeled to the WHO-BMG collaborative programme, WHO’s COVID-19 response and the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.

Germany’s increased flexible funding will provide vital support to WHO’s base programme.

Germany was WHO’s largest overall contributor in the 2020-2021 biennium and second in 2022, and the country has been the top donor to ACT-Accelerator, a global collaboration to quickly develop, produce and fairly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments.