World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock They also write that childhood diseases that were eradicated via vaccinations may come back — and with bird flu ...

Why does Trump want to withdraw? Trump first tried to exit WHO during his first term in 2020, accusing the organization of “severely mismanaging and covering up” the spread of Covid-19.

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for the U.S., where TB cases have also been rising. IE 11 is not supported.

A worker arranges UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian aid in a UAE plane headed to Egypt’s El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian ...

The organization also coordinates responses to health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and recent outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu. The U.S. has historically been a critical partner in the WHO.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday called on other countries to work with the U.S. on global health outside of the World Health Organization, as he rejected the pandemic agreement WHO ...

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for emergency response, told me in a recent interview on Fox News that she and her colleagues lacked enough information ...

The likely next secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio, once said of the World Health Organization: “The WHO is a corrupt, radical institution that was powerless to stop Covid-19 spreading beyond ...

Members of the World Health Organization came together on a critical agreement that outlines how members would react to pandemics after the COVID-19 outbreak.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. AP Photo/Evan Vucci ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations." The United States did not participate.

In a statement Tuesday, the organization said it regretted the US decision, noting that it had, “over the past 7 years ...