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WHO restructures, cuts budget after US withdrawal

(FILES) This photograph taken on December 7, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization, a presidential spokesman said on February 5, following in the footsteps of the United States which announced its exit from the UN agency last month. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
International

China to give US$500 million to WHO in next 5 years

“The world is safer today thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of our member states to adopt the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement,” says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
International

WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

(FILES) This photograph taken on December 7, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization, a presidential spokesman said on February 5, following in the footsteps of the United States which announced its exit from the UN agency last month. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
International

WHO rolls out early retirement to slash costs ahead of planned US exit

WHO’s eight-day executive board meeting in Geneva wrestled with the impact of US President Donald Trump’s Jan 20 decision to start the one-year process of withdrawing from the UN health agency.
International

WHO facing ‘new realities’ as US withdrawal looms

(FILES) The logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) is pictured on the facade of the WHO headquarters on October 24, 2017 in Geneva. Donald Trump signed a blizzard of divisive presidential orders as he was sworn in for a historic second term on January 20, 2025, pardoning supporters who violently attacked the US Capitol and clamping down on immigration, even as he vowed a new "golden age" for America. Trump also withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization and threatened huge trade tariffs on neighboring Canada and Mexico in a whirlwind return to the White House. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
International

WHO freezes hiring and cuts costs after Trump signals US exit

The more policymakers act on a key lesson of the Covid pandemic that no one is safe until everyone is safe, the faster the next crisis may pass.
Opinion & Features

Five years on from Covid outbreak, world still unprepared for future pandemics

Trump said the WHO had failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states” and required “unfairly onerous payments” from the US that were disproportionate to the sums provided by other, larger countries, such as China.
International

Trump orders US exit from the World Health Organization and Paris climate agreement

China found a cluster outbreak of the Ib subclade that started with the infection of a foreigner with a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
International

China discovers cluster of new mpox strain

Symptoms of the illness include headache, cough, fever, breathing difficulties and anaemia, according to the WHO.
International

‘Disease X’ outbreak widens as UN sends health team to Congo

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