World Health Organization leaders at a press briefing on COVID-19, held on March 6 at WHO headquarters in Geneva. Here's a look at its history, its mission and its role in the current crisis.

The U.S. should reform the WHO, not leave it. Smallpox eradication proved a great public health and geopolitical success. But just as the WHO was celebrating its global triumph in 1980 it was ...

For over 75 years, the WHO has been promoting global health. They have kept the world safe from some of the most dangerous and infectious diseases on the planet and achieved the very highest ...

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This led to the formation of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 7, 1948. To commemorate this, World Health Day is celebrated every year on the same date.

Why does Trump want to withdraw? Trump first tried to exit WHO during his first term in 2020, accusing the organization of “severely mismanaging and covering up” the spread of Covid-19.

Over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus directly or indirectly killed about 15 million people worldwide, according to estimates from the World Health Organization.In the ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 20 that withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a global coalition of 194 members that addresses health issues ...

The World Health Organization responded by calling on the U.S. government to reconsider its decision to withdraw, saying in a statement that together they had "saved countless lives and protected ...