Formula milk: WHO Foundation refuses to take further financial donations from Nestle

A foundation set up by the World Health Organization will no longer accept money from Nestlé, the world’s largest formula milk company, after a multi-million dollar donation made last year, The BMJ can report.The WHO Foundation received $2.2m (£1.97m; €2.26m) from Nestlé in 2021 that was originally intended for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a WHO fund to support its response to the pandemic. News of the contribution caused an internal furore at WHO, and the WHO Foundation told The BMJ that as a result of this “feedback” it had redirected the money to the Go Give One vaccine campaign, which funded the procurement of covid-19 vaccines by Covax.Since then the foundation has published a “gift acceptance policy” and strengthened its “related processes,” a spokesperson said. In future, the WHO Foundation will receive contributions only from companies that do not compromise “WHO’s integrity, independence, credibility, and reputation.”The WHO Foundation is…
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