A World Health Organization staff member hopes to raise enough money through fundraising on social media to soften the impact of President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the organisation,

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises.

The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders a pause on WHO funding.

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

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

There are growing international calls for peace talks to end the escalation of violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fate of the economic and trading hub Goma is still unclear. UN officials have said the situation is chaotic with fighting continuing in parts of the city.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”