WHO spends more money on travel than fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria

The agency says trying to control finance staff travel with new rules. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) disburses annually more than 200 million dollars in travel, exceeding the costs that the organization intended to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents which obtained access the  AP .

WHO last year spent $ 70.5 million to fight AIDS and hepatitis, he has earmarked 61 million in the fight against malaria, 59 projects related to tuberculosis and 23 with mental problems. The fight against polio received 450 million dollars from WHO, AP accurate.

Although travel more than 7,000 employees cost $ 201 million, WHO ensures that the host countries sometimes pay hosting the Director General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan. 

The organization ensures that tried to control the huge huge travel costs through the introduction of new rules. However, representatives of WHO indicate that "the agency can not be sure that [employees] always book the cheapest or the displacement even necessary ticket".

"We, as an organization, we operate at times as if the rules were to be broken and exceptions were the norm , " says the executive director of the office of Chan, Ian Smith.

The agency announced in a statement to AP that "