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.

Without funding and participation from the U.S., WHO might struggle to contain disease outbreaks or develop vaccines.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

President Donald Trump used one of the executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday released ... In 2020, during the pandemic, Trump officials moved to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization. President Joe Biden reversed the decision, but Trump’s team is expected to ...

President Donald Trump’s day one order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization as he signed a flurry of new executive actions Monday night is a major hit to the nation’s public health system,

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” said President Trump.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.