World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”
The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would begin the process of removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Here's why.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
The U.S. withdrawal from WHO has seismic implications on issues like prevention of future pandemics, and the stakes are especially high for Canada.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump signs executive order to extricate U.S. from the World Health Organization.
A health organization created in the wake of World War II to fight disease across the planet is losing its biggest donor, the United States.
Most adults in the United States drink alcohol, but there is steadily growing public concern about the health effects of moderate drinking.
Abortion was the leading cause of human deaths in 2024, resulting in the loss of over 73 million lives around the globe according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Approximately one million of those were here in the United States where we average over 2,800 deaths of preborn children each day.