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A healthcare worker administers polio vaccine to a child in the Ndirande Township of Blantyre, Malawi, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kenneth Jali)

Malawi vaccinates a new generation of children against polio, which still hasn’t been eradicated

By Gregory Gondwe - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

U.S. completes withdrawal from World Health Organization

By Mike Stobbe and Devi Shastri - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO no more, as Trump smacks ‘America First’ on global medical bureaucracy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Citizens protest against what they called the government's lack of action to combat air pollution in the capital city New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Air pollution levels surge in India’s capital, sparking rare protests

By Rishi Lekhi - Associated Press

This photo released by UNICEF shows displaced children and families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF via AP)

Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

By Sarah El Deeb and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

By Maria Cheng and Riazat Butt - Associated Press

World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classifying automotive gasoline as a “carcinogenic” compound illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Litigation city: World Health Organization affiliate classifies gasoline as ‘carcinogenic’

By Bonner Russell Cohen

FILE - This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, known vector for the parasitic disease malaria. (James Gathany/CDC via AP, File)

Swiss medicines authority issues first approval for antimalarial drug for treatment of infants

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

World Heath Organization fails to find COVID origin in latest probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), applauds as member countries approve an agreement to combat future pandemics, during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

WHO members adopt a ‘pandemic agreement’ born out of the disjointed global COVID response

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

After U.S. cuts funding, WHO chief defends $2.1B budget request by comparing it with cost of war

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives to speak at Mar-a-Lago, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Argentina says it will withdraw from the World Health Organization, echoing Trump

Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to journalists during a press conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 6, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief asks countries to push Washington to reconsider its withdrawal

By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

World Health Organization ‘regrets’ loss of U.S. support under Trump

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. withdrawal may force WHO to address Trump’s objections, delve into COVID-19 origins

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs order to withdraw U.S. from the World Health Organization

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

World Health Organization director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

World Health Organization let China lie, cheat on COVID-19

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A police officer stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistan begins last anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year after a surge in cases

Associated Press

A view of the general Hospital Panzi in southwestern Congo, Thursday, Nov 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucien Lufutu)

Authorities say the mystery disease in Congo might be malaria but more testing is needed

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press