"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.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the U.S. will continue supplying Ukraine from its defense industrial base at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Humanitarian disasters are breeding both short-term and long-term health problems around the world, global health officials said. View on euronews

U.S. President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

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.

President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

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.

The world reacts as President Trump moves to pull the U.S. out of the WHO and the Paris Climate Accords on Day 1 of his second term.

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. plan to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) will squeeze Africa's health initiatives, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, January 23, 2025, calling on African countries to find alternative sources of financing.