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US completes exit from World Health Organization after 78 years

Updated on: 24 January,2026 09:00 AM IST  |  New York
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Th US owes more than USD 130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO; and Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new pandemic

US completes exit from World Health Organization after 78 years

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The US has finalised its withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it’s hardly a clean break.

Th US owes more than USD 130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO; and Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new pandemic.


Tehe withdrawal will hurt the global response to new outbreaks and will hobble the ability of US scientists and pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines and medicines against new threats, said Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University. “It’s the most ruinous presidential decision.”



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