Which mines get out of the US for global healthcare? Donald Trump News
For decades, the United States has greatly strengthened the direction of global health policies and programs. Health policy experts say that President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in the office, indicating the end of that era.
Trump’s order to withdraw from the World Health Organization means that the US will not be on the table in February when the WHO Executive Board will do the next combination. WHO is shaped by its members: 194 countries that determine health priorities and make compromises about how to share important data, treatment and vaccine during international emergency conditions. With the disappearance of America, it will strengthen others.
“A visitoring Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University said,” A difference in global health leadership will be left out of WHO which will be filled by China, “said Kenneth Bernard, a partner of Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who said, who said George W. Bush served as a top biodefens officer during administration. “(This) is clearly not in America’s best interests.”
WHO cites WHO’s “Mixed of Kovid -19 epidemic” to assure the American approach to Executive Order and International Assistance to withdraw from WHO and says American aid “to destabilize world peace” Works In action, they echo the preferences installed in the “mandate for leadership of project 2025”, which is a conservative policy blueprint from the Heritage Foundation.
The 922-Page report states that the US should “be prepared” to withdraw from the WHO citing “manifest failure”, and advises an overhaul for international assistance in the state department.
“The Biden administration has considered it as a global platform as a global platform to pursue a divisive political and cultural agenda abroad that promotes interference against abortion, climate extremism, gender radical and perceived systemic racism Is, “It says.
As one of the world’s largest healthcare funds – through both international and national agencies, such as The WHO and US Agency for International Development (USAID) – US Stepping Back to provide lifetime healthcare and provide deadly outbreaks Can reduce efforts, especially in the lower back, especially in the lower back. Without the means of doing this -Kom country.
“This not only makes Americans less safe, it makes citizens of other countries less safe,” said Tom Balliki, director of Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He said, “The US cannot close itself from transnational health hazards,” he said, refer to policies that prevent passengers from countries with outbreaks of the disease. “Most of the evidence around the travel ban indicates that they provide false sense of safety and distract nations from distracting tasks that they need to take at the domestic level to ensure their safety.”
US GDP less than 0.1 percent
Technically, the country cannot withdraw from WHO until one year after the official notice. But Trump’s executive orders cite their termination notice from 2020. If the Congress or the public push back, the administration can argue that more than a year has passed.
Trump suspended funds to WHO in 2020, a measure that does not require Congress’s approval. American contribution to the agency, decreased by $ 163m during that first year of Kovid -19 epidemic, falling behind Germany and Gates Foundation. Former President Joe Biden restored US membership and payment. In 2023, the country gave WHO $ 481m.
As 2024, Suri Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Geneva Graduate Institute, said that the Biden administration paid the bidenium dues for 2024-25, which would cover some payment of this year.
The “incorrectly paid” is quoted in the executive order as a cause of withdrawal from WHO. The arrears of countries are one percent of their GDP (GDP), which means that as the world’s richest nation, the US has generally paid more than other countries.
The fund for WHO represents about 4 percent of the US budget for global health, which in turn is less than 0.1 percent of the US federal expenditure each year. At approximately $ 3.4bn, the budget of the WHO is approximately one -third, which is the Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) center, which got $ 9.3BN in core funding in 2023.
WHO funds support programs to prevent and treat polio, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, measles and other diseases, especially in countries that struggle to provide domestic healthcare. It also responds to health emergency conditions in the struggle areas, including places where the US government does not operate – Gaza, Sudan and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, others.
In January 2020, the WHO warned the world to its highest alarm: a public health emergency emergency emergency for the threat of the Kovid outbreak. Over the next two years, it regularized diagnostic tests and potential medicines for Kovid, updated the public regularly, and advised countries to protect citizens.
Experts have cited misunderstandings in the agency, but several analyzes suggest that internal problems for the US are one of the highest rates of the world’s death due to covid.
“All countries received a WHO alert of a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January,” said Boliki. “South Korea, Taiwan, and others responded aggressively – America did not.”
‘This is a red herring’
However, Trump’s executive order accused the epidemic of “exercising” and “to adopt immediate requirements”. The WHO has made some changes through bureaucracy processes including inputs from participating countries. Last year, for example, the organization passed several amendments to its rules on health emergency conditions. These include provisions on transparent reporting and coordinated financing.
The Moon of the Geneva Graduate Institute said, “If the Trump administration tried to insist for special reforms for a year and then they were disappointed, I could find the correction line reliable,” Moon of the Geneva Graduate Institute said . “But for me, this is a red herring.”
“I don’t buy clarification,” said Bernard of Stanford University. “This is not a matter of money,” he said. “There is no argument to withdraw from our problems with China, which makes sense.”
Trump has alleged that China is accused of complex in openly investigating the origin of Kovid, which he describes as a “unfair political influence” in the executive order.
“The World Health Organization covered every step of the China Communist Party of China,” Trump said in a video posted on social media in 2023.
On many occasions, who have called for transparency from China. The agency does not have the legal right to force China, or any other country, which it says. The fact also cancels Trump’s warning that an epidemic treaty under the interaction at WHO on American sovereignty. Rather, the purpose of the agreement is to explain how countries can cooperate better in the next epidemic.
Trump’s executive order called the US to “stop” talks on an epidemic agreement “. This means that the pharmaceutical industry may lose one of its staunch defenders as the discussion moves forward.
In the conversation so far, the US and the European Union have biased with the pharmaceutical industry to maintain strict patent rights on drugs and vaccines. They have opposed efforts to include licensing agreements from medium -income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that will allow more companies to produce drugs and vaccines when the supply is low in crisis. A study published in The Nature Medicine Journal estimated that in 2021, Covid vaccines were available worldwide.
“Once America is absent – for better and worse – some positions will be low pressure,” Moon said. “In the conversation of the epidemic agreement, we can see the protest against the more public-health-oriented approaches for intellectual property.”
“This is a moment of geopolitical change as the US is making itself less relevant,” said Iode Alakiza, president of the Africa Union’s vaccine delivery coalition.
Alakija said that countries in Asia and Africa with emerging economies can now invest more money in WHO, change policies, and determine agenda which were previously protesting by America and European countries which war in Ukraine Are struggling with “Shakti is moving hands,” Alakija said. “Maybe it will give us a more equitable and fair world in the long term.”
Project 2025 echo
In the near period, however, WHO is unlikely to fully meet its loss, Moon said. Funds from the US typically have about 15 percent of their budget. With Trump’s executive order that prevents international assistance for 90 days, lack of money can prevent many people from receiving lifetime treatment for HIV, malaria and other diseases.
Another disadvantage is scientific cooperation through WHO and about 70 centers that host American institutions such as Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University. Through these networks, scientists share conclusions despite political quarrels between countries.
A third executive order orders the state secretary to ensure that the department’s programs “are in line with the US’s first foreign policy”. It follows the order to prevent international assistance, reviewing it for “continuity with the United States Foreign Policy”. The order says that American aid has “served to destabilize world peace to promote ideas abroad that is directly reversed to harmonious and stable relations”.
These more executive orders on climate policies along with the policy agenda expressed by Project 2025. Although Trump and his new administration have removed themselves from the Heritage Foundation Playbook, CBS News reviewed the work history of 38 nominated primary writers of Project 2025 and found that at least 28 of them worked in Trump’s first administration. Did.
One of the main architects of Project 2025 was Russell Wout, who served as Director of Management and Budget Office during Trump’s first term and was re -nominated for it. Project 2025 has several contributors from the US First Legal Foundation, a group led by Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller, who filed complaints against “Vok Corporation”.
Project 2025 recommends cutting international assistance for programs and organizations focused on climate change and reproductive healthcare, and “strengthening the basic principles of free markets”, reducing taxes and businesses as the path of economic stability Steering resources towards deragulating.
Many experts said that executive orders appear to be the ideological rather than a strategic position.
The White House did not answer questions about its executive orders on global healthcare. Executive orders say that American assistance “works to destabilize world peace”, a spokesman of USAID wrote in an email: “We mention you the White House.”
