How will the Trump administration affect efforts to fight global pandemics?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

How will the Trump administration affect efforts to fight global pandemics?

NPR  

How will the Trump administration affect efforts to fight global pandemics? Global pandemic treaty negotiators are hashing out cooperation plans this week and considering rushing the process out of fear that the Trump administration would pull the U.S. out of negotiations. EMANUEL: Many global health experts say to postpone finalizing the treaty until next year, when Trump is in office, is to postpone it forever. DONALD TRUMP: The draft treaty would require the United States to send vast quantities of medical supplies to other countries in the event of another pandemic EMANUEL: Trump envisions an America First approach.

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“Sitting ducks”: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO could put the US at risk for deadly viral outbreaks
1 month, 3 weeks ago

“Sitting ducks”: Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO could put the US at risk for deadly viral outbreaks

Salon  

When Rwanda announced an outbreak of the highly infectious Marburg disease in September, partners from around the world, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, provided emergency funding to help curb it. Many are concerned that the Trump Administration’s actions in the first two weeks of operation, including signaling that he would withdraw from the World Health Organization and issuing …

Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal
2 months ago

Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal

Politico  

Now, if Tedros can’t heal the rift, hundreds of millions of dollars in annual U.S. contributions to global disease-fighting are at risk. Trump took pains to praise one of Tedros’ predecessors, Gro Harlem Brundtland, for her handling of an outbreak of the SARS virus in China in 2003 and said that continued U.S. membership in the organization depended on “reform.” …

What a US exit from the WHO means for global healthcare
2 months ago

What a US exit from the WHO means for global healthcare

Al Jazeera  

Trump pulls US out of WHO; UN braces for a funding shortfall and a tougher stance on global agencies For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programmes. “ is clearly not in America’s best interests.” The executive orders to withdraw from the WHO and to reassess the US approach …

The US intends to leave the World Health Organization. What happens next?
2 months ago

The US intends to leave the World Health Organization. What happens next?

New Indian Express  

The withdrawal may take a year to come into effect, and may need approval by the US Congress. The US withdrawal may also be the final nail in the coffin for the WHO Pandemic Agreement, which faltered in 2024 when member states could not agree on the final draft. However, the order hints that the US will look at working …

Trump's WHO Strategy Could Make America Sick
2 months ago

Trump's WHO Strategy Could Make America Sick

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. President Joe Biden reversed that order upon taking office, but now Trump has reinstated it, citing “the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China” as a reason. “I think it’s really important to recognize that the challenges that the Trump administration is trying …

Under Trump, we could be flying blind when it comes to bird flu, other infectious diseases
2 months, 1 week ago

Under Trump, we could be flying blind when it comes to bird flu, other infectious diseases

LA Times  

The United States is ground zero for the H5N1 bird flu. However, a note from a Human Services spokesman to a Times reporter on a different topic noted that the agency “issued a pause on mass communications and public appearances that are not directly related to emergencies or critical to preserving health.” The spokesman said the pause was temporary and …

Health experts condemn Trump decision to withdraw U.S. from World Health Organization: ‘Enormous mistake’
2 months, 1 week ago

Health experts condemn Trump decision to withdraw U.S. from World Health Organization: ‘Enormous mistake’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Shortly after being inaugurated on Monday, Donald Trump signed an …

DC Edit | America’s ‘golden age’ may not glitter for all
2 months, 1 week ago

DC Edit | America’s ‘golden age’ may not glitter for all

Deccan Chronicle  

The Donald Trump quadrennial has well and truly begun. Tossed out along with membership of the World Health Organisation is America’s signature on the Paris Agreement, which means climate change action would be the most affected. Along with the EVs that seemed to be the world’s answer to urban pollution and its effect on global warming, out goes America’s participation …

Trump wants to pull the US out of the World Health Organization again. Here’s what may happen next
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump wants to pull the US out of the World Health Organization again. Here’s what may happen next

Associated Press  

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump’s return to Washington WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used one of the flurry of 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 — a …

Donald Trump orders US to ‘exit’ World Health Organization, says, ‘that’s a big one’
2 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump orders US to ‘exit’ World Health Organization, says, ‘that’s a big one’

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources, Bloomberg reported. The WHO, based in Geneva, plays a crucial role in addressing global health threats, including infectious diseases, humanitarian crises, and chronic conditions …

Donald Trump withdraws US from WHO: What will be the consequences?
2 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump withdraws US from WHO: What will be the consequences?

India Today  

President Donald Trump, on his Inauguration Day, January 20, announced the start of the process of ending the US membership of the World Health Organisation. But not only will the WHO lose its biggest donor, the US withdrawal will make Americans lose vital information from the global health agency that could add an enormous threat to the country. In 2020, …

WHO: Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization
2 months, 1 week ago

WHO: Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, in a significant move that drew criticism from public health experts on his first day back in the White House. The text of Monday’s executive order cites the “organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global …

What is the World Health Organization and why does Trump want to leave it?
2 months, 1 week ago

What is the World Health Organization and why does Trump want to leave it?

CNN  

CNN — “Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. In a statement Tuesday, the organization said it regretted the US decision, noting that it had, “over the past 7 years implemented …

WHO: Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization
2 months, 1 week ago

WHO: Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, in a significant move that drew criticism from public health experts on his first day back in the White House. The text of Monday’s executive order cites the “organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global …

How will Trump's return to the White House change the face of global health?
2 months, 1 week ago

How will Trump's return to the White House change the face of global health?

NPR  

How will Trump's return to the White House change the face of global health? "It's not like magic, like wave the presidential pen and then everything has changed," says Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president and CEO of the Global Health Council, a nonpartisan group that advocates for global health. Max Primorac, a senior research fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom …

Biden health officials say they built up US pandemic defenses. Trump promises changes
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden health officials say they built up US pandemic defenses. Trump promises changes

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The Biden administration on Tuesday released a “roadmap” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them. During the campaign last year, Trump told Time magazine that he would disband the White House office focused on pandemic preparedness, calling it “a very expensive solution to something that won’t …

Biden health officials say they built up U.S. pandemic defenses. Trump promises changes
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden health officials say they built up U.S. pandemic defenses. Trump promises changes

LA Times  

Used syringes fill a bin at a mass vaccination event outside New Orleans during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden administration this month released a “road map” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them. During the campaign last year, Trump told Time magazine that he would disband …

The election’s stakes for global health
4 months, 3 weeks ago

The election’s stakes for global health

Politico  

The WHO aims to complete negotiations on a pandemic deal that could oblige drugmakers, including U.S.-based ones, to share vaccines and drugs with the developing world. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Trump would torpedo the pandemic treaty, not just withdraw the United States, but literally make it impossible to negotiate,” said Larry Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute …

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember

Salon  

At a campaign event in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump asked the crowd a question Ronald Reagan also asked voters in the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter, and one many presidents before have asked. “People are still framing questions like that as if where we were four years ago was not in the early stages of a …

Why did global talks to fight pandemics break down?
10 months ago

Why did global talks to fight pandemics break down?

Al Jazeera  

Countries were fiercely opposed to proposals they said were against their national interests. Global talks over developing a joint pandemic treaty broke down last week, as delegations failed to agree on a pact, largely because participating countries disagreed on a range of issues that they said threatened national interests. Those powers would elevate the body from its advisory role, the …

How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics
10 months ago

How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics

The Hindu  

Health officials from the 194 member states of the World Health Organization hope next week to complete more than two years of negotiations on new rules for responding to pandemics when they gather in Geneva. Negotiations go to the wire on Friday for two complementary deals set to be formalised at the May 27-June 1 meeting: an update to existing …

Biden administration announces new partnership with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics
11 months, 1 week ago

Biden administration announces new partnership with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020. The Global Health Security Strategy, the president said, aims to protect people worldwide and “will make the United States stronger, safer, and healthier than …

Biden administration partners with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden administration partners with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics

LA Times  

President Biden’s administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries, most of them in Africa and Asia, identify and respond to infectious diseases. President Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020. The Global …

Explained: How World Health Organization might fight future pandemics
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained: How World Health Organization might fight future pandemics

Hindustan Times  

Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization, with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by the U.N. health agency's 194 member countries. A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in …

WHO, at heart of world’s sluggish Covid response, could face shake-up
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO, at heart of world’s sluggish Covid response, could face shake-up

Live Mint  

The World Health Organization, at the heart of the world's sluggish handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, faces a potential shake-up to prevent future outbreaks as a top official warned that "the pathogens have the upper hand". Health ministers from WHO's 194 member states will also meet from Nov. 29 to decide whether to launch negotiations on an international treaty aimed …

Biden plunges into the global debate over access to COVID-19 vaccines
4 years, 1 month ago

Biden plunges into the global debate over access to COVID-19 vaccines

LA Times  

President Biden will announce on Friday his plan for the United States to contribute $4 billion to the global fight against COVID-19, stepping into an international leadership role that his predecessor had abandoned during the pandemic. Politics How vaccination efforts across the world may affect Americans President Biden is racing to get more Americans inoculated faster, but the lagging vaccination …

I worked on a pandemic response team before Covid-19. We had a plan. Then everything fell apart
4 years, 3 months ago

I worked on a pandemic response team before Covid-19. We had a plan. Then everything fell apart

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 2006, I took a job …

What is Joe Biden's plan to tackle America's COVID-19 crisis?
4 years, 4 months ago

What is Joe Biden's plan to tackle America's COVID-19 crisis?

ABC  

The sheer scale and urgency of America's burgeoning public health crisis is difficult to comprehend, let alone fix. The president-elect has announced a COVID-19 advisory board made up of public health experts, who will help coordinate the incoming administration's response to the pandemic. Borrowing a page from former US president Franklin Roosevelt, Biden says he'll create a "Pandemic Testing Board" …

How Biden plans to change the US Covid-19 pandemic response
4 years, 4 months ago

How Biden plans to change the US Covid-19 pandemic response

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris say they will move the US Covid-19 pandemic response in a dramatically different direction. “I want everyone to know on day one, we’re going to put our plan to control this virus into action.” There were dauntingly high new case numbers last week, and by the time Biden takes office …

CDC retraction shows chaos of Trump’s Covid response
4 years, 6 months ago

CDC retraction shows chaos of Trump’s Covid response

CNN  

CNN — New chaos at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over revised guidance on the spread of Covid-19 is a fresh sign of mixed messaging that long plagued the White House’s failed pandemic response. The move came less than a week after Trump publicly rebuked the agency’s director Dr. Robert Redfield, who voiced a timetable for all …

How Trump managed to lead the world with the worst response to COVID-19 pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

How Trump managed to lead the world with the worst response to COVID-19 pandemic

Salon  

Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern. On July 31, the WHO's International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met and the following day asked governments to continue with and even increase their work of educating their populations to be vigilant with the basic …

Column: As COVID-19 pandemic tightens grip on U.S., Trump ratchets up the cruelty
4 years, 7 months ago

Column: As COVID-19 pandemic tightens grip on U.S., Trump ratchets up the cruelty

LA Times  

President Trump took a day off from creating more pain for American workers by going golfing on Saturday. Trump praised as “very impressive” a spectacularly unhinged and data-free public appearance by Stella Immanuel, a Houston doctor who called the drug a “cure” and maintains on her website that “serious gynecological problems, Marital distress, miscarriages, impotence, untold hardship, financial failure and …

World Health Organization: Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from WHO
4 years, 8 months ago

World Health Organization: Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from WHO

CNN  

CNN — The Trump administration has notified Congress and the United Nations that the United States is formally withdrawing from the World Health Organization, multiple officials tell CNN, a move that comes amid a rising number of coronavirus cases throughout the Americas over the past week. A State Department official also confirmed that “the United States’ notice of withdrawal, effective …

Trump is facing the thing he dreads most
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump is facing the thing he dreads most

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Michael D’Antonio is the author of the book “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success” and co-author with Peter Eisner of “The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. CNN — Declaring in 2016 that “I alone can fix it,” Donald Trump made the country’s fate all …

U.S. will cut ties with World Health Organization over coronavirus response, Trump says
4 years, 10 months ago

U.S. will cut ties with World Health Organization over coronavirus response, Trump says

LA Times  

President Trump said Friday that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization, saying it had failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus because China has “total control” over the global organization. He said Chinese officials “ignored” their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the WHO to mislead the world when the virus was first …

Trump terminates US relationship with World Health Organization
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump terminates US relationship with World Health Organization

Salon  

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is terminating the United States' relationship with the World Health Organization, an international public health agency. "Our nation's ability to fight and defeat COVID-19 is stronger because of robust, international scientific, medical and public health cooperation and collaboration," Dr. Russell Medford, Chairman of the Center for Global Health Innovation and Global Health …

K.C. Singh: Will Covid crisis lead to major changes globally?
4 years, 10 months ago

K.C. Singh: Will Covid crisis lead to major changes globally?

Deccan Chronicle  

Historians say pandemics can be inflection points for major global change. But above all, in 2016 Donald Trump was elected US President, followed in 2019 by the ascension of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister, riding a Brexit wave, and Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s President. In first three, the leaders have already won elections, but US President Donald Trump faces …

Is China the new leader on the world health stage? (Opinion)
4 years, 10 months ago

Is China the new leader on the world health stage? (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst, a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and host of the podcast Global Impact. CNN — The World Health Assembly – the biggest event on the global health agenda – held on Monday and Tuesday this week, can be easily summed up: The Trump administration threatened …

Trump threatens to permanently pull funding from WHO and ‘reconsider’ US membership
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump threatens to permanently pull funding from WHO and ‘reconsider’ US membership

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump is escalating his threats against the World Health Organization, telling the agency he will permanently pull US funding if it does not “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days.” Trump’s letter – in which he included a false description of when information about the virus was published in The Lancet, prompting …

Pandemic planning becomes political weapon as deaths mount
4 years, 10 months ago

Pandemic planning becomes political weapon as deaths mount

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — For the first three years of his presidency, Donald Trump did not publicly utter the words “pandemic” or “preparedness.” Not in speeches, rallies or his many news conferences, planned and impromptu. Beth Cameron, who worked on pandemic planning in the Obama administration, said the playbook that the Obama administration presented to the Trump administration “was given, briefed and …

A timeline of the Trump administration’s coronavirus actions
4 years, 11 months ago

A timeline of the Trump administration’s coronavirus actions

Al Jazeera  

Travel restrictions, lack of tests, contradicting claims: These are some of the major actions by the US president. Let’s try and get it corrected for the next time.” When asked how he is avoiding being fired, Fauci says that even though he disagrees with Trump “on some things, he listens. He goes his own way.” March 24: Trump says he …

Before Trump was against, his federal government supported the WHO
4 years, 11 months ago

Before Trump was against, his federal government supported the WHO

Salon  

As President Donald Trump publicly bashed the World Health Organization over its response to the coronavirus pandemic last week, American aid officials tried to delicately sidestep the political tensions, internal documents shared with ProPublica show. A State Department spokesperson said the halt to WHO funding "in no way diminishes U.S. leadership on global health matters, including the current COVID crisis. …

What happens if the US stops funding the WHO in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic?
4 years, 11 months ago

What happens if the US stops funding the WHO in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic?

ABC  

US President Donald Trump has threatened to halt funds to the UN's World Health Organisation. Dr Sara Davies, an expert in global health governance at Griffith University, said if the cuts go ahead, "we will see the WHO have to make tough decisions about which programs it can continue". Global health politics researcher Jeremy Youde from the University of Minnesota …

Trump implies WHO deliberately mishandled coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 11 months ago

Trump implies WHO deliberately mishandled coronavirus pandemic

Al Jazeera  

US president’s remarks come after he halted about $500m in funding for the World Health Organization despite crisis. US President Donald Trump has escalated his attack on the World Health Organization, saying its early guidance on the coronavirus outbreak was a “horrible” mistake – and perhaps even a deliberate one. So what we focus on is to save lives.” China’s …

Coronavirus: What the WHO said as the pandemic unfolded
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: What the WHO said as the pandemic unfolded

Daily Mail  

The World Heath Organisation has found itself with serious questions to answer after President Trump accused the UN agency of 'severely mismanaging' its response to the coronavirus pandemic and withheld $500million in funding. The main symptom is listed as fever, with ‘a few patients having difficulty breathing’ The WHO says there is ‘no evidence of human-to-human transmission’ and that ‘no …

Donald Trump halts funding to WHO over its handling of coronavirus pandemic, global leaders condemn move
4 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump halts funding to WHO over its handling of coronavirus pandemic, global leaders condemn move

Firstpost  

The WHO had promoted China’s ‘disinformation’ about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred, Trump said. The Geneva-based organisation had promoted China’s “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred, Trump said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he sympathised with Trump’s criticisms of the …

World reacts to Trump withdrawing WHO funding
4 years, 11 months ago

World reacts to Trump withdrawing WHO funding

Al Jazeera  

Critics call US president’s move ‘a dangerous step in the wrong direction’ after he cuts 15 percent of UN agency budget. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Borrell said the 27-nation bloc “deeply” regrets the suspension of funds and added that the U.N. health agency is now “needed more than ever” to combat the pandemic. This move will undoubtedly make …

What US funding cut means for WHO’s fight against coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

What US funding cut means for WHO’s fight against coronavirus

Al Jazeera  

President Trump’s decision could mean as much as $720m in health programmes could go unfunded this year and next. While announcing his decision, Trump accused the WHO of promoting China’s “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak, including in the US. Dr Wang Linfa, an infectious disease expert at Duke-National University of Singapore, told Al Jazeera …

Donald Trump's move means the WHO just lost its biggest financial backer. Here's what it could do to the fight against coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump's move means the WHO just lost its biggest financial backer. Here's what it could do to the fight against coronavirus

ABC  

US President Donald Trump's criticism of the World Health Organisation over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic finally boiled over when he announced he was instructing his administration to halt funding of the organisation. Mr Trump had been suggesting for some time he was going to cut US funding to the WHO, saying it was fortunate he rejected its advice …

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