The American CEO of Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Friday warned that the United States' exit from the World Health Organization ...

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 ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial ...

"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 ...

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, ...

The move to exit the WHO is historic and controversial. The U.S. has long been the most generous provider of humanitarian ...

Jimmy Carter traveled the country and the world, wearing a toolbelt ... who then founded Habitat on the concept of what the organization calls “partnership housing,” according to its written ...

The late President Jimmy Carter and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the director-general of the World Health Organization — knew each other for 20 years. And they clearly had deep respect for ...