Background Uncertainty is defined as limited knowledge or lack of predictability about past, present or future events. The ...

GENEVA — An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic? The World Health Organization, which was at the heart of ...

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit ...

Since the US became an WHO member by an act of Congress, one legal view is that only Congress can authorise the withdrawal. Lawerence Gostin, professor of global public health law at Washington State ...

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to begin withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that some scientists and faith ...

The U.S. is and has historically been the largest funder of the global health agency headquartered in Geneva ... WHO for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as his administration faced ...