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.

A World Health Organization staff member hopes to raise enough money through fundraising on social media to soften the impact of President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the organisation,

Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot run. It’s a situation that in public health is a nightmare,” said Dr Boureima Hama Sambo, WHO Representive in DRC.

More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about one third say it benefits a fair amount. Conversely, 38% say the U.S. does not benefit much or at all from WHO membership.

On his first day back in the White House, US President Donald Trump began the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). Trump had initiated the US pullout during his first term,

The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders a pause on WHO funding.

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United Nations agencies are anxiously awaiting the fallout from US President Donald Trump's abrupt suspension of almost all foreign aid. The UN agency that helps refugees, asylum seekers and people forcibly displaced within their own countries has been put on a savings drive,

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.

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.

There are growing international calls for peace talks to end the escalation of violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fate of the economic and trading hub Goma is still unclear. UN officials have said the situation is chaotic with fighting continuing in parts of the city.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed scores of executive orders, including one to withdraw from the World Health Organization.