World Health
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump signed an Executive Order to remove the United States from the World Health Organization.
2025 February
2025-02-27 The Trump administration ended funding for a UN program fighting HIV/AIDS.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-un-hiv-aids-funding
2025 July
2025-07-14 Members who were left in USAID reached out to the Trump administration to ask for release of food stocks intended to feed 30,000+ starving children. The administration ignored the requests for weeks, allowed the food stock to expire, then announced it would incinerate the food. It was roughly 500 metric tons of food they allowed to spoil then incinerated, rather than feed hungry children.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
2025 October
2025-10-25 PBS covered a story about how nurse Agnes Nambozo scales a 1000-foot ladder to work every day to reach the children in a remote part of Uganda to administer vaccines and life-saving care, and now that USAID has been dismantled she must also cover the work of several other people who, because of the Trump administration, are no longer available to provide aid.
https://nurse.org/news/uganda-nurse-climbs-ladders-to-save-lives/
2026 January
2026-01-21 In a study, Trump’s decision to block USAID resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jjpm7zv8o
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext
2026-01-23 The Trump administration announced that it would not be paying the $260M it still owes to the World Health Organization. January 23 2026 marked one year after Trump signed Executive Order 14155 to separate from them.
https://www.devex.com/news/the-trump-administration-says-it-won-t-pay-what-it-owes-who-111741