US withdrawal forces WHO to tighten its belt

All nations received the WHO's alert of a public health emergency of international concern on Jan. 30,

Bollyky said

This is a moment of geopolitical shift because the U.S. is making itself less relevant,

said Ayoade Alakija, chair of the Africa Union's Vaccine Delivery Alliance

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I don't buy the explanations,

Bernard said

Once the U.S. is absent — for better and for worse — there will be less pressure on certain positions,

Moon said

If the Trump administration tried to push for particular reforms for a year and then they were frustrated, I might find the reform line credible,

Moon said

This not only makes Americans less safe, it makes the citizens of other nations less safe,

said Tom Bollyky, director of global health at the Council on Foreign Relations

The U.S. cannot wall itself off from transnational health threats,

he added, referring to policies that block travelers from countries with disease outbreaks

We refer you to the White House."

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The World Health Organization disgracefully covered the tracks of the Chinese Communist Party every single step of the way,

Trump said in a video posted to social media in 2023

The Biden Administration has deformed the agency by treating it as a global platform to pursue overseas a divisive political and cultural agenda that promotes abortion, climate extremism, gender radicalism, and interventions against perceived systemic racism,

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Withdrawing from the WHO leaves a gap in global health leadership that will be filled by China,

he said

Public health experts who I've spoken to are concerned that we have a world leadership position with this and, if there is, for example, the next pandemic, it would help in terms of communication, to be able to be in communication with everybody around the world,

said LaPook

We did have, actually, individuals contacting us already about the concern that this might now be a problem, as data are not coming forward any more and may not be shared,

Lindmeier said

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This announcement has made our financial situation more acute, and we know it has created significant concern and uncertainty for the WHO workforce,

the organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a letter sent to WHO staff Thursday and seen by AFP on Friday

We are reviewing which activities to prioritize with a reduced resource envelope,

he said

WHO protects the U.S. with a sophisticated health intelligence system that works to detect, characterize and assess threats in real time,

he said

We know the role that the WHO has played on the continent... to really improve the delivery of health programmes,

Ngongo told a media briefing