Gen eva: Urgent action is required to address a growing global crisis in financing vital health systems, as countries grapple with towering debt and plummeting aid, the World Health Organization said Monday.

The UN agency launched guidance for countries on how to counter the immediate and long-term effects of the sudden and severe cuts to external funding, which have dramatically disrupted essential health services in many places.

"The world is now facing a global health financing emergency that demands urgent, coordinated action," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a meeting of African Union member states in Geneva.

Under President Donald Trump, the United States -- traditionally the world's top donor -- has heavily slashed foreign aid, causing havoc across the globe, while

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