World Health Organization Urges Trump to Reconsider Exit (3)

The World Health Organization called on the US to reconsider President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the agency, suggesting the move could undermine global health security.

The planned departure would leave the WHO scrambling to replace its top donor, which contributed $1.3 billion to the organization between 2022 and 2023. Without US funding, work that the WHO carries out on containing diseases such as HIV, polio and Ebola as well as a recent outbreak of lethal Marburg virus could be at risk.

Patients receiving mpox vaccinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photographer: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg

“Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication,” ...