A Battle Over Direction of Global Public Health

Behind US Exit From WHO...

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We fully believe WHO thought by now they would dominate every country’s healthcare system.

If the Progressives globally had their way, they would have

MAGA and President Trump had other plans, however…

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By Beige Luciano-Adams, 13 July 2025, Updated 16 July 2025, all rights belong to The Epoch Times (excerpt)

One approach by the WHO prioritizes pandemic response and vaccines, while the other focuses on health promotion, such as nutrition, sanitation, and economic development.

As the World Health Organization celebrated the adoption of a landmark pandemic treaty in May, the United States deepened its criticism of the U.N. agency - which it contends has become

• corrupt

• beholden to special interests

• diverted from its core mission

While a U.S. delegation was absent from the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva - where member states approved the world’s first pandemic agreement with 124 votes in favor, no objections, and 11 abstentions - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered an address via video…

“I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call. It isn’t that President Trump and I have lost interest in international cooperation - not at all,” Kennedy said, adding that the United States was already in contact with “like-minded” countries.

He proposed an alternative global system, inviting fellow health ministers around the world to cooperate outside the limits of a “moribund” WHO.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order [archive] in January, initiating the year-long process of withdrawing from the agency.

Trump’s first administration started the process in 2020, but President Joe Biden reversed course.

In a statement, the WHO said it hopes that the United States will reconsider, …