The Presidential Ordinance quotes the global health agency “COVID-19 Pandemic born from Uhan, China”.
Trump’s January 20 order has stopped US funding to the United Nations and quotes other global health concerns as “the incorrect COVID-19 pandemic born from Uhan, China”. I am.
During the withdrawal, negotiations with pandemic agreements and groups on international health regulations are suspended.
The biggest funder
The United States is now the largest WHO Funder and has donated about $ 1.28 billion to 2022-2023, which was reported on the organization’s website. This is almost half of the external external evaluation mission of last year.
The documents obtained by the AP communication (AP) covered about 95 % of the European tuberculosis and about 60 % of the Africa and the West, and 8 % of WHO European Office on US donations. It shows that it depends on the above. 。
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Who will respond
At the press conference in Geneva in December 2024, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom GHEBREYESUS explained the relationship with the United States as a “good model partnership.”
“(We) has been partning for many years, but I think so, and US leaders understand that the United States is not safe unless otherwise in the world is safe. I believe, “he told reporters.
Following the announcement of Trump’s decision to eliminate the United States from an organization, GHEBREYESUS asked the world leaders to promote the White House to reverses the decision.
AP reported that the WHO chief said in a closed door with diplomats that the United States would miss important information about the outbreak of illness.
George Kiriri Ku, a financial director of the agency, said that if a group expenditure continued at the current level without providing funds from the United States, the organization said, “There are so many people who come out of the mouth for cash flow. It is in the situation. ” At least part of 2026.
CDC response
The US Disease Control Prevention Center (CDC) has ordered institutional employees to stop their cooperation with the WHO.
John Nkengasong, a Deputy director of the CDC Global Health, sent a note to Agency leadership on January 26, quickly stopped working with the staff, and waited for further guidance. Also, CDC staff is not allowed to be or directly involved with the WHO, and the staff is not allowed to visit the WHO office.
Some public health experts have expressed concerns about suspension of collaboration, such as UCLA’s medicine and global health professor Jeffrey Krausner, who cooperates with the WHO of sexually transmitted diseases. Masu.
“It’s a big problem to stop communicating and meeting with anyone,” Klausner said. “I thought people would withdraw slowly. This was a trouser and really caught everyone.”
Behind the withdrawal
The Trump administration said the WHO could not show the independence of member states, “failed to adopt urgent reforms.”
According to the President’s Presidential Presidential Order, Trump states that it is far from the payment targeted by other countries.
“China, which has a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 % of the US population, but is nearly 90 % lower to WHO,” said the order.
This is the second attempt by Trump to withdraw from who. The President launched the process in 2020 to frustrate the WHO reaction to the WHO reaction between China’s WHO reaction surrounding details surrounding the transmission of SARS-COV-2 at the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
According to the report, the WHO has undergone pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, and has been accused of “putting Chinese political interests ahead of international obligations.”
As part of a suspicious failure, the WHO was ignored on December 31, 2019 that Taiwan had ignored the Taiwanese warning on Taiwanese cases.
AP communication and ALDGRA Fred have contributed to this report.
