For decades, the United States has gained great power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump has issued three presidential ordinances regarding the Presidential Order. First day of inauguration Medical policy experts said that this could tell the end of that era.
President Trump’s order Withdraw A statement from the World Health Organization means that in February the next WHO Board will be convened in February, the United States will probably not arrive at the table. The WHO is formed by 194 members of the country that set up a health -priority place and conclude an agreement on how to share important data, treatment methods, and vaccine in the event of an international emergency. When the United States is gone, it will give power to other countries.
“It’s completely stupid,” said Kenneth Bernard, a visiting researcher at the Stanford University Hoover Research Institute and the leading biological defense under the George W Bush administration. He said, “With the withdrawal of the WHO, the world’s health leaders will have vacant seats and China will fill the holes. This is not clearly the best profit for the United States.”
Presidential Ordinance calling for re -evaluation of US approaches for withdrawal from the WHO and international support, the WHO’s “wrong response to the new colon viral infection pandemic” and US assistance will “unstable world peace. It is said that it plays a role. The actual action reflects the priority items established in the project 2025’s “leadership mission”. Blue photo of conservative policy From the Heritage Foundation.
The 922 pages reported that the United States had to prepare for the WHO for the WHO’s “obvious failure,” and recommend an international assistance for the Ministry of State. “The Biden administration is to pursue two -minute political and cultural agenda, which promotes intervening in abortion, climate change extreme, gender radicalism, and organized racism. The company has distorted the institution as a global platform. “
Through both international organizations such as the WHO and the United States International Development Agency and domestic institutions, as one of the world’s largest funding countries in global health, the United States will recede, especially for people in low -income groups. Providing and fighting the trend of lethality may be reduced. Income countries do not have the means to do so alone.
“This not only reduces the safety of Americans, but also reduces the safety of other nations,” said Tom Bolky, Diplomatic Health Director Director of the Diplomatic Council.
He further mentioned a policy of blocking travelers from a popular country, saying, “The United States cannot protect from a health threat across borders.” “Most evidence regarding the ban on travel shows that the ban is incorrectly safe and keeps the necessary behavior in Japan to ensure the safety of each country.”
Less than 1%
Strictly speaking, each country cannot leave the WHO from the official notice from the official notice. However, President Trump’s presidential ordinance mentioned the dismissal of 2020. If the parliament and the people oppose it, the administration may claim that more than a year has passed.
President Trump stopped funding to the WHO as a measure that does not require parliament approval in 2020. The US donation to the agency reached the lowest level of $ 163 million in the first year of the expansion of the new Coronavirus, and did not leave the German or Gates Foundation. Former President Joe Biden has restored US member qualifications and payments. In 2023, the country donated $ 481 million to the WHO.
Regarding 2024, See Moon, the co -director of the Geneva Graduate Global Health Center, said that the Biden administration paid early in 2024 to 25 years, which would cover some of this year’s payment. He said.
The Presidential Order states that the reason for leaving the WHO is “unreasonably burdensome payment.” The associations in each country are the proportion of domestic production, which means that the United States, the world’s most wealthy country, is generally paying more than other countries.
The WHO accounts for about 4% of the US World Health Budget, which is only less than 0.1% of the US Federation. The overall WHO budget of about $ 3.4 billion is equivalent to about one -third of the budget of the Diseases of the Disease Control Prevention Center, which earned a core fund of $ 9.3 billion in 2023.
of WHO fund Especially in countries where medical care is difficult in Japan, we support polio, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, measles, and other diseases to support and treat. This organization also supports health emergency situations in conflict areas, including areas where US governments are not active, such as Gaza, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In January 2020, the WHO warned the world of the world’s largest warning of an emergency situation in public hygiene, which is an international concern. For the next two years, he scrutinized the new colon virus diagnostic tests and potential treatments, regularly provided information to the people, and advised each country to take measures to protect the people’s safety.
Experts have made mistakes in authorities, but many analysis shows that the United States has one of the highest countries in the world with the new Coronavirus mortality rate in the world. 。 “All countries have received WHO warnings on public health emergencies on January 30,” said Boriky. “South Korea, Taiwan, etc., actively responded to this, but the United States did not respond.”
“It’s a red nicin”
Nevertheless, President Trump’s presidential decree has accused the WHO “incorrectly responding to the pandemic” and “introducing urgently necessary reforms.” In fact, the WHO has made some changes through bureaucratic processes with opinions from member states. For example, last year, the organization passed some amendments to a healthy emergency. These include transparent reports and adjusted funding.
“If the Trump administration was frustrated by the Trump administration to promote a specific reform for one year, you may think the reform route will be reliable.” “But for me, it’s a red herring.”
“I don’t agree with the explanation,” said Bernard. “This is not a matter of money,” he added. “There is no reasonable basis for leaving WHO, including the problem with China.”
President Trump accused the WHO in charge of not publicly investigating the origin of the new Coronavirus, and in the presidential decree, it is a “inappropriate political influence”. I am.
“The World Health Organization has concealed the footprints of the Chinese Communist Party at all steps,” in a video posted on social media in 2023.
WHO has many times in China for transparency. The agency has no legal authority to force it to China or other countries. This fact also denies President Trump’s warning that a pandemic agreement under negotiating in the WHO infringes US sovereignty. Rather, this agreement aims to determine how each country can cooperate in the next pandemic.
President Trump’s presidential decree has called on the United States to stop negotiations on pandemic agreements. This means that as the debate progresses, the pharmaceutical industry may lose one of the most stubborn defenders.
In previous negotiations, the United States and the European Union have cooperated in lobby activities from the pharmaceutical industry to maintain strict patent rights on pharmaceuticals and vaccines. They oppose the initiatives of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in which more companies incorporate licensed agreements that allow more companies to produce pharmaceuticals and vaccines when the crisis is lacking in the crisis. Studies published in Nature Medicine estimate that more than 1 million lives were saved in 2021 if the new Coronavirus vaccine was available around the world.
“If the United States is absent, the pressure on a specific position will weaken, for better or worse,” said Bun. “Pandemic agreement negotiations may weaken the opposition to the approach that emphasizes public health in intellectual property.”
“The United States is now the moment of geopolitical change, as the United States is diminishing its significance,” said Ayoide Arakija, the African Alliance Vaccine distribution alliance. Alakja has said that Asia and Africa emerging economies may invest more money to the WHO, change their policies, and set the agenda that the United States and European countries, which are working on the Ukrainian War, have been opposed. I mentioned. “Power is changing,” Arakja said. “Perhaps it will bring a more fair and fair world in the long term.”
Project 2025 reverberation
But in the short term, WHO is unlikely to regain the loss completely. Usually, funding from the United States accounts for about 15% of the budget. Along with President Trump’s presidential decree, which stops international assistance for 90 days, a shortage of funds may cause many people to be unable to receive HIV, malaria, and other life treatment.
Another loss is the scientific cooperation that is held through the WHO and the WHO about 70 centers hosted by the WHO and the University of Colombia and the University of Johns Hopkins. Through these networks, scientists share research results, despite the political feud between nations.
The third presidential decree has ordered the Secretary of State to guarantee that the ministry’s plan is “in line with the American first -time foreign policy.” This is the order of suspension of international assistance while examining “consistency with US foreign policy”. The order has stated that US assistance has played the role of “instability to world peace by promoting the opposite of a harmonious and stable relationship to other countries.”
The presidential ordinance on these and climate policy is linked to the policy issues. Expression in Project 2025。 Trump and his new administration are far away from the Heritage Foundation strategy, Review CBS News Examination of the 38 nominated author’s 38 work history revealed that at least 28 had been working in the first Trump administration.
One of the chief designers Russell VortWas the director of the Administrative Budget Budget on the first term of President Trump, and was once again appointed. Several contributors to Project 2025 are an organization led by President Trump Advisor Steven Miller, from the American First Legal Foundation, which has submitted a complaint to a “awakened company.”
Project 2025 reduces international assistance to programs and organizations that focus on climate change and reproxy healthcare, and turns resources for “strengthening the basics of the free market”, tax reduction, and deregulation of companies as a way to economic stability. We recommend that you do.
Several experts have stated that the presidential decree seems to be more ideological positions rather than strategic.
The White House did not respond to a question about the World Health Presidential Order. The USAID spokeswoman said in e -mail that USAID spokeswoman, which states that U.S. assistance will “unstable world peace,” he will “introduce the White House.”
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