Friday, October 3, 2025
  • Who’sWho Africa AWARDS
  • About TimeAfrica Magazine
  • Contact Us
Time Africa Magazine
  • Home
  • Magazine
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • World News
    • US
    • UAE
    • Europe
    • UK
    • Israel-Hamas
    • Russia-Ukraine
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Column
  • Interviews
  • Special Report
No Result
View All Result
Time Africa Magazine
  • Home
  • Magazine
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • World News
    • US
    • UAE
    • Europe
    • UK
    • Israel-Hamas
    • Russia-Ukraine
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Column
  • Interviews
  • Special Report
No Result
View All Result
Time Africa Magazine
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • Magazine
  • World News

Home » Special Report » Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization

Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization

President Javier Milei’s office announced that Argentina will exit the WHO and ban gender-affirming care for minors, mirroring two recent Trump executive orders | By SAMANTHA SCHMIDT and KELLY KASULIS CHO

February 6, 2025
in Special Report
0
542
SHARES
4.5k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Argentina will withdraw from the World Health Organization, a spokesman for President Javier Milei said Wednesday, just weeks after his ally, President Donald Trump, announced he would again pull out of the global health alliance.

Milei instructed his foreign minister to leave the alliance due to “profound differences regarding health management, especially during the pandemic” and “a lack of independence from the political influence of some states,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said in a news conference Wednesday.

“Argentines are not going to allow an international organization to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,” Adorni said.

The move by South America’s second-largest economy follows a Trump executive order that terminates the United States’ commitment to the organization. Trump has accused the WHO of fueling the coronavirus pandemic that helped end his first presidency, and inaccurately charged that it helped cover up the origins and spread of the virus.

ReadAlso

Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Province of Congo

Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to rely less on imports

The United States is responsible for nearly 20 percent of the WHO’s funding. Public health experts warn that Trump’s departure could cripple the organization’s operations at a time when member nations are battling several dangerous outbreaks around the world and trying to stop the return of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, such as measles.

They also fear it could leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency that helps coordinate the response to international health crises, The Washington Post has reported.

ADVERTISEMENT

The WHO currently lists 194 member states on its website, including the United States and Argentina.

Argentina does not receive WHO funding for its health management, Adorni said Wednesday, so the decision will not mean “a loss of funds for the country, nor does it affect the quality of services.”

However, he said it will allow the government greater flexibility to implement policies aligned with the “interests of Argentina.”

Milei, a libertarian economist whom Trump has called his “favorite president,” is one of Trump’s most important allies in Latin America. Milei attended Trump’s inauguration and has often expressed his admiration for the U.S. president. Like Trump, he was a political outsider who garnered fame on television with brash and outlandish antics, promising on the campaign trail that he would tackle inflation, reduce federal spending and boost the economy.

After taking office in late 2023 on a promise to take a chainsaw to government, Milei has slashed regulations, government jobs and several entire agencies. On Wednesday, he also mirrored a recent Trump executive order by signing a decree banning gender-affirming care for people under age 18, working against a 2012 gender identity law that allowed it with the consent of a parent or guardian.

In a statement Wednesday, Argentina’s presidential office said gender ideology has been “taken to the extreme” and specifically pointed to the United States and other countries as recent examples of leaders walking back access to such care for minors.

Source: The Washington Post
Tags: ArgentinaWorld Health Organization
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

What are the risks of a U.S.-China trade war, and can conflict be averted?

Next Post

Fear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in Africa

You MayAlso Like

Special Report

World leaders step up efforts behind the scenes at the UN to end the war in Sudan

September 27, 2025
Special Report

African Leaders Call for Bold, United Action to Tackle Global Health Crises, Sustain Malaria Progress

September 27, 2025
Special Report

Dangote vs. NUPENG: Is the Fuel Consumer the Real Casualty?

September 25, 2025
Special Report

Leaked Documents Reveal How Fr. Edwin Obiora Exploited Legal Instruments to Manipulate Late Msgr. Prof. John Bosco Akam

September 22, 2025
Special Report

‘African tribe’ ordered to leave Scottish forest

September 13, 2025
‘We were treated like animals,’ says Al-Husseina Amadou said. ‘Now we are free.’ Some estimates put the number of enslaved people in Niger at 130,000. Photograph: Fred Harter
Featured

‘TRIANGLE OF SHAME’: Niger Where Girls Are Still Bought Cheaply As ‘Wahaya’

September 13, 2025
Next Post

Fear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in Africa

What is the U.N. Human Rights Council, from which Trump has withdrawn?

Discussion about this post

FIFA Strips South Africa of World Cup Qualifying Points After Administrative Blunder

The Guardian Newspaper Names Enugu Commissioner, Dr. Lawrence Ezeh, Amongst 65 Most Inspiring, Award-Winning Business Leaders

Egyptian ‘strong man’ pulls 700-ton ship with his teeth

Prince Harry issues strongly-worded statement over King Charles meeting

Barack Obama admits he had to ‘dig himself out of a hole’ with Michelle amid divorce rumors

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in prison in Libyan campaign-financing trial

  • British government apologizes to Peter Obi, as hired impostors, master manipulators on rampage abroad

    1241 shares
    Share 496 Tweet 310
  • Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

    1067 shares
    Share 427 Tweet 267
  • Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

    973 shares
    Share 389 Tweet 243
  • ‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

    904 shares
    Share 361 Tweet 226
  • Crisis echoes, fears grow in Amechi Awkunanaw in Enugu State

    735 shares
    Share 294 Tweet 184
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

British government apologizes to Peter Obi, as hired impostors, master manipulators on rampage abroad

April 13, 2023

Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

December 27, 2022
Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

September 22, 2023
‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

March 21, 2023
Chief Mrs Ebelechukwu, wife of Willie Obiano, former governor of Anambra state

NIGERIA: No, wife of Biafran warlord, Bianca Ojukwu lied – Ebele Obiano:

0

SOUTH AFRICA: TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE?

0
kelechi iheanacho

TOP SCORER: IHEANACHA

0
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

WHAT CAN’TBE TAKEN AWAY FROM JONATHAN

0

The Guardian Newspaper Names Enugu Commissioner, Dr. Lawrence Ezeh, Amongst 65 Most Inspiring, Award-Winning Business Leaders

October 2, 2025

Poor sleep could make your brain age faster, study finds

October 2, 2025

Moroccans clash with police during protests against World Cup spending

October 1, 2025
ExxonMobil Foundation Brings STEM Regional Competition to African Energy Week

ExxonMobil Foundation Brings STEM Regional Competition to African Energy Week

September 30, 2025

ABOUT US

Time Africa Magazine

TIMEAFRICA MAGAZINE is an African Magazine with a culture of excellence; a magazine without peer. Nearly a third of its readers hold advanced degrees and include novelists, … READ MORE >>

SECTIONS

  • Aviation
  • Column
  • Crime
  • Europe
  • Featured
  • Gallery
  • Health
  • Interviews
  • Israel-Hamas
  • Lifestyle
  • Magazine
  • Middle-East
  • News
  • Politics
  • Press Release
  • Russia-Ukraine
  • Science
  • Special Report
  • Sports
  • TV/Radio
  • UAE
  • UK
  • US
  • World News

Useful Links

  • AllAfrica
  • Channel Africa
  • El Khabar
  • The Guardian
  • Cairo Live
  • Le Republicain
  • Magazine: 9771144975608
  • Subscribe to TIMEAFRICA MAGAZINE biweekly news magazine

    Enjoy handpicked stories from around African continent,
    delivered anywhere in the world

    Subscribe

    • About TimeAfrica Magazine
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Us
    • WHO’SWHO AWARDS

    © 2025 TimeAfrica Magazine - All Right Reserved. TimeAfrica Magazine Ltd is published by Times Associates, registered Nigeria. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service.

    No Result
    View All Result
    • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
    • Politics
    • Column
    • Interviews
    • Gallery
    • Lifestyle
    • Special Report
    • Sports
    • TV/Radio
    • Aviation
    • Health
    • Science
    • World News

    © 2025 TimeAfrica Magazine - All Right Reserved. TimeAfrica Magazine Ltd is published by Times Associates, registered Nigeria. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service.

    This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.