For decades, the United States has considerable power to determine the global health policy and the direction of the program. President Donald Trump has issued three administrative orders on the first day of his inauguration, which could show the end of that era, said.
The order of withdrawing from Trump's World Health Organization means that the United States is probably not at the table when the WHO Executive Committee is the next in February. WHO is formed by members: 194 countries that have set a health priority and have agreed on how to share important data, treatment, and vaccine in international emergency. When the United States goes missing, he will give his power to others.
Kenneth Bernard, a visiting fellow of the Stanford University of Stanford University, who served as a top bio -defensive official in the George W Bush administration, stated: “(This) is obviously not the biggest profit in the United States.”
The administrative order to retreat from the WHO and re-evaluate the US approach to international support, quotes the WHO's “COVID-19 Pandemic Incorrect operation”, and the US assistance “unstable world peace is unstable. It is said that it is useful for that. During the action, they echo the priority established in the project 2025 “Delegation of Leadership”. This is a blueprint of a conservative policy from the Heritage Foundation.
The 922 pages reported that the United States quoted “Manifest Failure” and stated that “must be prepared” to withdraw from the WHO, and advises the Overhaul with the State Department of international assistance. 。
“The Biden administration is a global platform to pursue divisional political and cultural agendas that promote abortion, extreme extreme, gender extreme, gender, and recognized systematic racism overseas. By doing so, the institution was deformed. “
Through both international and domestic organizations such as the WHO and the US International Development Organization (USAID), the United States is one of the largest medical fund providers in the world, especially low -cost life -saving medical care. It may reduce efforts to fight the outbreak. -A income country without means for that.
“This reduces the safety of Americans, but also reduces the safety of citizens in other countries,” said Tomboliky, a global health director of the Diplomacy Council.
“The United States cannot run around from a health threat across borders,” he added and mentions policies to prevent travelers from a sick country. “Most of the evidence of travel prohibitions indicates that they provide incorrect security and take the necessary behavior in Japan to ensure their safety. “
Less than 0.1 % of US GDP
Technically, the country cannot withdraw from the WHO until one year after the official notice. However, Trump's presidential order has quoted the end notification from 2020. If the parliament or the people retreat, the administration can claim that more than a year has passed.
Trump stopped funding to WHO in 2020. This is a measure that does not require parliamentary approval. The United States' contribution to the agency reached $ 163 million in the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Germany and the Gates Foundation. Former Joe Biden has recovered US membership and payment. In 2023, the government gave the WHO of $ 481 million.
Regarding 2024, the Sleemoon, a co -director of the Geneva Research Institute's Global Health Center, said that the Biden administration paid for the early year's membership fee early in 2024 to 25.
“Unfairly troublesome payment” is quoted by the Presidential Ordinance as a reason for the withdrawal from the WHO. The national membership fee is the ratio of gross domestic production (GDP), which means that the United States is generally paid more than other countries.
WHO funds account for about 4 % of the US budget for global health. This is less than 0.1 % of US federal spending every year. The budget of about $ 3.4 billion of about $ 3.4 billion is about one -third of the disease management prevention center (CDC), which won $ 9.3 billion in core funds in 2023.
WHO, especially a country that is struggling to provide medical care in Japan, provides funds to support programs to prevent and treat polio, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, measles, and other diseases. It also supports the health emergency in conflict zones, including places that have not been operated by the US government, such as Gaza, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In January 2020, the WHO warned the world of Cobid's dangers by stimulating the best alarm, the emergency of public health of international concerns. In the next two years, we have examined COVID diagnostic tests and potential drugs, have advised the government to update the public and keep the citizens safer.
Experts quote institutional failures, but many analyzes indicate that the United States internal problems account for one of the highest mortality in the world in COVID.
“All countries were warned of WHO on the emergency of public health on international concerns on January 30,” said Bolky. “South Korea, Taiwan, and others have responded aggressively. The United States did not.”
“It's a red herring”
Nevertheless, Trump's presidency has accused who “accidentally” and “failed to adopt urgent reforms”. The WHO has made some changes through bureaucratic processes, including opinions from participating countries. For example, last year, the organization has passed several revisions for health emergency. These include transparent reports and adjusted funding.
“If they were frustrated after the Trump administration tried to promote a specific reform, I might think the reform line would be reliable,” said the Geneva graduate research institute. “But for me, it's a red herring.”
“I don't buy an explanation,” said Bernard at Stanford University. “This is not a matter of money,” he added. “There is no basis to withdraw from those who make sense, including problems in China.”
Trump accused that it was “inappropriate political impact,” when he was collusion of China's rejection, which did not openly investigate the origin of COVID.
“The World Health Organization has covered the trajectory of the Chinese Communist Party at all stages of the road,” said Trump in a video posted on social media in 2023.
At multiple opportunities, the WHO is seeking transparency from China. Agents have no legal authority to force China or other countries. This fact also denies Trump's warnings for the pandemic treaty during the negotiations who hinder our sovereignty. Rather, Accord aims to lay out how the countries can cooperate in the next pandemic.
Trump's presidential ordinance calls the United States to “stop negotiations” in a pandemic agreement. This means that the pharmaceutical industry can lose one of the most solid defenders as the debate progresses.
In previous negotiations, the United States and the European Union have been on lobby activities from the pharmaceutical industry to support the strict patent rights of drugs and vaccines. They have a license agreement that opposes the efforts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and can produce drugs and vaccines in case of lack of supply in preparation for a crisis. I am opposed to include. A study published in Nature Medicine Journal presumed that if Cobid vaccine became available around the world in 2021, more than one million lives could have been saved.
“More better and worse, the absence of the United States will reduce the pressure on a specific position,” said Moon. “In pandemic agreement negotiations, the opposition to the public -oriented approach to intellectual property may be weakened.”
Ayoide Arakiya, chairman of the African Federation of vaccine distribution alliance, states:
Arakiya will invest a lot of money to set the WHO, changes, and agenda, which had previously opposed the United States and European countries in Ukraine and the African countries with emerging economies. He said there was a possibility. “Power is shifting,” said Arakiya. “Maybe it will give us a more fair and fair world in the long term.”
Project 2025 echo
But soon, WHO is unlikely to collect the loss completely, Moon said Moon. U.S. funds usually account for about 15 % of the budget. Along with Trump's presidential order, which suspends 90 days of international assistance, the shortage of money may prevent many people from being treated to save HIV, malaria, and other lives.
Another loss is a scientific collaboration that occurs at WHOs and about 70 centers, which are held at US organizations such as Columbia UNIVERSITY and Johns Hopkins University. Through these networks, scientists share the survey results, despite the political feuds between countries.
The third presidential order has ordered the Secretary of State to confirm that the department's program is “in line with the first foreign policy of the United States.” Following an order to pause international assistance while reviewing “consistency with US foreign policy”. According to the order, US assistance helped to “promote foreign ideas directly opposite to a harmonious and stable relationship, to unstable world peace.”
The administrative orders on these and climate policy will introduce and track the policy agenda expressed by Project 2025. Trump and his new administration are far away from the heritage Foundation playbook, but the CBS News reviewed the 38 major authors of the project 2025 and found it. At least 28 worked in Trump's first administration.
One of PROJECT 2025's chief architectz was Russell Voucht. He was managed and the director of the Budget Bureau during the first term of Trump and was nominated again. Several contributors to Project 2025 are from America First Legal Foundation, a group led by Trump Advisor Stephen Miller, who filed a complaint about Woke Corporations.
Project 2025 reduces international assistance in programs and organizations that focus on climate change and reproductive medicine, “strengthen the basics of the free market”, reduce taxes, and deregulate companies as a way to economic stability. We recommend a pilot resource to do.
Some experts said that the presidential order seemed to be related to ideology, not strategic positioning.
The White House did not answer questions about the presidential order about global healthcare. The USAID spokesman wrote that the USAID spokesman wrote, “We will introduce you to the White House”, and the US assistance says “to make World Peace unstable”. 。
