President Donald Trump's decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder. For the two-year budget ending in 2025, the U.S. is projected to be WHO’s largest single contributor by far.
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.
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.
By withdrawing from the World Health Organization and overhauling aid, Trump's new executive orders endanger Americans and the globe, researchers warn. The move also cedes U.S. power to other nations.
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO will leave the U.N. agency with a $958m gap.
Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic, and also aided Democrats who called Trump’s own move to shut the border to Chinese travelers racist.
"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.
WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention strategies, and more. The loss of US funding is likely to have a significant impact on at least some of these programs.
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President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the world health organization (WHO) has caused the agency to lose its largest funder, with the US p
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