At the start of his second term, United States president Donald Trump
has again announced that the US will formally leave the World Health
Organization (WHO) in 2025. Leaving the WHO is a financial blow to the
Organization, as many have pointed out, but it is much more than that.
Trump’s decision to abandon WHO is counterproductive and puts at
risk the capacity of the organization to perform its role as the global
health agency. The WHO has been central to responding to global
health emergencies for more than seven decades.
Tag: WHO
World Health Day this year marks 75 years of WHO. WHO has presented a timeline for these years. You might think of different issues that could have been highlighted. The Lancet has published its version of a timeline for WHO 75 years
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00677-3/fulltext
New research paper from the South Center:
The World Health Organization (WHO) should act as the directing and coordinating authority in global health but it has been steadily marginalized over time by design, through criticism as an inefficient organization, the reduction of assessed contributions and consequent impoverishment, and the proliferation of “new” international health agencies to which WHO has been compelled to cede operational space. This paper discusses how such marginalization of the WHO is in the interest of the dominant actors in global health, and leads to the neglect of health as a development issue. Today the global health system is more fragmented than it was when the WHO was established in 1948.
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