World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization is the latest in a five-year grudge against Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
After previously blaming it for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump is pulling the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday told reporters that the recent decline in monkeypox cases in North America and Europe proved that shows that the ...
WHO Director-General... Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, was accused in 2017 of downplaying cholera epidemics that hit Ethiopia and Sudan.
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.
The World Health Organization is freezing recruitment and slashing travel in response to the withdrawal of the U.S., its biggest funder, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.
Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus after its health ministry had previously denied the spread.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.
Under a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress, a US withdrawal from the WHO requires a one-year notice period. A spokesperson for the United Nations confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that it received a notice from the US of its intent to withdraw dated January 22, making the formal withdrawal date January 22, 2026.