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.”
World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
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.
The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
It’s a mistake for President Trump to order to the United States to leave the World Health Organization. He should reverse course immediately.
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.
The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.
Inauguration Day for the 45th and now 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, featured a host of events in which Trump was in attendance.