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 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.
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.
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.
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.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
The U.S. withdrawal from WHO has seismic implications on issues like prevention of future pandemics, and the stakes are especially high for Canada.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday he may consider rejoining the World Health Organization, days after ordering a U.S. exit from the global health agency over what he described as a mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
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.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”