The head of the U.N.'s health agency on Saturday pushed back against Washington's stated reasons for withdrawing from the World Health Organization, dismissing U.S. criticism as "untrue." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/25/world/science-health/who-us-withdrawal-untrue/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #who #health #us #donaldtrump #covid19
US officially leaves World Health Organization
The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday, saying its decision reflected failures in the U.N. health agency's management of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/23/world/science-health/us-exits-who/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #who #health #us #donaldtrump
U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
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The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization, despite concerns over the impact to public health and the legality of the departure under American law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/22/world/science-health/us-quit-who/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #who #health #donaldtrump #us #un #tedrosadhanomghebreyesus
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The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/usa-divorce-world-health-organization-puts-america-at-risk/
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As of tomorrow, the US will be out of #WHO. It's leaving the organization with a large unpaid bill — 2 years of unpaid membership dues, including from the last year of the Biden administration. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/trump-withdrawal-world-health-organization-leaves-unpaid-bills-behind/
The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/usa-divorce-world-health-organization-puts-america-at-risk/
As of tomorrow, the US will be out of #WHO. It's leaving the organization with a large unpaid bill — 2 years of unpaid membership dues, including from the last year of the Biden administration. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/trump-withdrawal-world-health-organization-leaves-unpaid-bills-behind/
Some people really get on my nerves. Like I know they're probably OK but the sort of performative anger at global events and the finger wagging at everyone. Just feels like a clout play.
HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY NOTICED POLITICS AND STUFF LATELY IT IS BAD WHOS WITH ME ALSO WHO LIKES PIZZA
I suppose that is engagement for people who aren't clinically insane. But are they just furious all of the time? I feel like this is the polarisation - the online algorithmic echochamber we talk about. Have a day off dude. That doesn't need to be your whole brand. Enjoy some fruit. Smell the trees. Take in a show. Find a body of water and jump into it. Call an old friend. Make love to yourself under the moonlight. Make something with gravy then have too much gravy. Write your memoirs. Scare a goose. Straighten your hair and howl at a stranger. Learn how to do a backflip. Chant an ancient curse and summon the End Times. Grapple a boa constrictor. Burn all of your clothes. See how far you can throw a pineapple. Grieve the loss of your childhood innocence. Raise cattle from foals and then when fully reared release them into the wild. Become a famous weather presenter. Jump a motorcycle over 14 buses. Macrame an indoor plant hanger. Submit a winning entry to a book competition. Undergo extensive plastic surgery then run away to live in the forests of Paraguay. Enter and triumph at a Chris De Burgh lookalike contest. Never eat bread again. Evolve gills and live underwater. Bio-engineer a dragon. Recreate the Sistene Chapel in a Wetherspoons. I could go on.
Who watches the Waymos? I do [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
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Thank you Agora (Mistral) -- because I'm 42 I'll go with the #WHO definition maybe ;)
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Le Kenya, premier pays africain à voir sa santé cofinancée par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump
L’accord bilatéral, conclu le 4 décembre, est le premier en la matière depuis la dissolution de l’Agence américaine pour le développement international survenue en février. Deux jours plus tard, le Rwanda a, lui aussi, signé un accord avec les Américains.
Le Monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/12/08/le-kenya-premier-pays-africain-a-voir-sa-sante-cofinancee-par-les-etats-unis-de-donald-trump_6656493_3212.html
Archive : https://archive.is/RZjlz
(cf. mon thread du weekend a ce sujet)
Trump has now spent 317 days ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
Every day Trump cowers to Putin instead of helping Ukraine, more Ukrainians die.
Trump is not stopping the killing. He is the cause of the killing.
@randahl
With all due respect to Ukrainans✊ suffering and dying (for us europeans too).
Yes, but allow me to point out, it's sadly "only" the more obvious deaths he (rather say #project2025 ) is causing (/not stopping).
Not in the deathcount (nationally/globally) included are those by cuts in health- and science-programs. #Medicaid #Medicare #USAID #vaccine #climate #education #WHO .....
The number of deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands, if not way more globally.
Le Kenya, premier pays africain à voir sa santé cofinancée par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump
L’accord bilatéral, conclu le 4 décembre, est le premier en la matière depuis la dissolution de l’Agence américaine pour le développement international survenue en février. Deux jours plus tard, le Rwanda a, lui aussi, signé un accord avec les Américains.
Le Monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/12/08/le-kenya-premier-pays-africain-a-voir-sa-sante-cofinancee-par-les-etats-unis-de-donald-trump_6656493_3212.html
Archive : https://archive.is/RZjlz
(cf. mon thread du weekend a ce sujet)
Men Who Made America's Self-Made Man
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/self-made
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U.S. retrenchment creates a vacuum of global governance leadership — one that China is eager to fill. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/28/japan/beijings-globalist-agenda/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #china #ggi #un #xijinping #shanghaicooperationorganization #sco #globalsouth #us #donaldtrump #un #who #unesco #bank #beltandroad
@tehstu Here's the latest advice on the WHO website: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice
Towards a global scale for functional ability: what gets measured and gets done—but are we measuring the right thing?
"...A standardised scale based on the #WHO ’s five domains should be developed and integrated into global #ageing surveys..."
#Aging #Care #Health #Geriatrics #HealthyAgeing
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/11/afaf323/8315880