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Hiwote Solomon

Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
 

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Public health implications of Trump’s decision to terminate the US relationship with WHO in sub-Saharan Africa and how to mitigate them in the short term

Last week, after more than a month of thinly and less thinly veiled threats, President Trump announced the U.S. would “terminate” its relationship with the WHO. As if he was playing in his own Terminator movie, a really bad sequel at that. It is not immediately clear whether the president can fully withdraw U.S. funding from WHO without an ...