World Health

2025 January

2025-01-20 Trump signed an Executive Order to remove the United States from the World Health Organization.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-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 The Trump administration allowed USAID food stocks for starving children to expire and be incinerated. 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/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/16/usaid-food-for-nearly-30000-hungry-kids-to-be-destroyed-official

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-aid-workers-lobbied-weeks-save-food-stocks-destruction-after-trump-cuts-2025-07-16/

2025 October

2025-10-25 PBS reported on Ugandan nurse Agnes Nambozo, who climbed a 1,000-foot ladder daily to provide vaccines and medical care. Following USAID cuts, she also assumed duties previously handled by other aid workers.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/meet-the-nurse-in-uganda-who-climbs-a-1000-foot-ladder-to-save-lives

https://www.medangel.org/1000-foot-ladders-in-uganda/#:~:text=Agnes%20Nambozo%2C%20a%20Ugandan%20nurse,approximately%2050%20patients%20per%20visit.

https://nurse.org/news/uganda-nurse-climbs-ladders-to-save-lives/

2025 November

2025-11-27 The State Department directed its employees and grant-recipients to not commemorate World Aids Day.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/world-aids-day

https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/tets/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davewessner/2025/12/01/on-this-world-aids-day-the-us-declines-to-participate/

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://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/one-year-after-trumps-usaid-shutdown-sherman-meeks-lead-all-foreign

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-toll-usaid-cuts-withdrawal-chikungunya-vaccine-funding-updated-ebola

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

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/health/who-us-split

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/