The World Health Organization (WHO) today has launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through health taxes ...

The abrupt halt to U.S. involvement in the World Health Organization has caused considerable and immediate uncertainty for global health. But it can also signal a new opportunity to fix at last wha… ...

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.

A worker arranges UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian aid in a UAE plane headed to Egypt’s El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations." The United States did not participate.

Uganda’s Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng receives boxes of Ebola virus vaccines sent by the World Health Organization on Dec. 8, 2022, in Entebbe, Uganda. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File) ...

Members of the World Health Organization came together on a critical agreement Tuesday that outlines how members would react to pandemics after the COVID-19 outbreak.. COVID-19 has killed over 7 ...

The World Health Organization warned this week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

A U.S. withdrawal from the WHO would throw into doubt the organization’s capacity to do the myriad things it is tasked with, from developing the disease coding system used by health systems ...

U.S. public health officials were told this week to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. Here’s a list of WHO’s top donors: U.S.: $958 million; ...

World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock They also write that childhood diseases that were eradicated via vaccinations may come back — and with bird flu ...