In the summer In 2020, 15 prominent leaders in the United States Public Health World gathered and accused President Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, one of the world’s most prominent medical magazines. Written, but this decision was later overturned by the president. Biden before its origin.
Almost five years have passed, one of the first simultaneous attacks in Trump’s second term was to start the process of withdrawing the United States from WHO. This movement has already been controversial, and there is a risk of legal objection.
According to a joint resolution passed by the House of Representatives in 1948, the United States needs to notify the WHO one year ago for such withdrawal, but Trump’s intention is immediately withdrawn without seeking the approval of Congress. It seems to be done.
“The presidential ordinance has announced an immediate withdrawal from the WHO, but the President has not demanded parliamentary approval and has not been notified one year ago,” said Washington DC University Law Center. Lawrence Gostin says, Professor of Public Health Law. One of the co -author of the 2020 Lancet dissertation. “In my opinion, this is reckless, lawful, and needs to be contested in court.”
President Trump has a long history of criticizing the WHO, accused of “serious management mistakes and concealment” for the spread of new colon viral infections, in the past, the organization was “corrupt”. I was doing it. The United States is historically one of the largest funding countries to the WHO, and it is estimated that it provides one -fifth of the budget for the entire organization. From 2022 to 2023, the United States provided nearly $ 1.3 billion to the WHO.
But Gustin and others are particularly concerned about the impact of the US withdrawal on the country’s abilities that deal with the progress of infectious diseases. The WHO has a wide range of authority, from advice on essential drugs to tobacco, drugs, and the recommendation of public policy for everything, but is definitely the most influential. This is about the following potentially problematic monitoring. Correspondence to bird flu and international response adjustment.
“With the withdrawal of the WHO, we will become more lonely in the world, vulnerable, and vulnerable,” Gustin says. “It is not possible to close the border against the pathogen. It is necessary to extinguish the fire on the spot before the WHO arrives in the United States. In addition, it is necessary to develop vaccines and treatments to save lives. You also need a vast network of WHO that provides information about viruses.
According to Sten Fermundo, one of the leaders of the Global Virus Network and another co -author of the Lancet Papers, what will happen next, the Bill and Merinda Gates Foundation, It depends on the reaction of non -governmental organizations such as the World Bank and Gavi. The vaccine alliance all provide a large amount of money to the WHO. Germany has increased its contribution to more than $ 1 billion, with Trump reduced the US WHO to $ 680 million from 2020 to 2021. The Denmark government agreed to double the contributions, focusing on improving health and reproductive health and increasing non -infectious diseases.
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