The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health body will impede efforts to control the global spread of diseases and could pu

"It's a cataclysmic presidential decision," say experts, referring to President Trump's executive order to pull the country out of WHO

Questions remain and reactions from world leaders are coming in after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to remove the United States as a member state of the World Health Organization. We look at the impacts.

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

The Geneva-based WHO plays a pivotal role in battling global health threats, focusing on infectious diseases as well as humanitarian crises and chronic

As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."

Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2020, Trump started the ball rolling toward extricating the U.S. from the United Nations agency, but President Joe Biden reversed course after taking office in 2021.

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.