President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect.

The White House has directed the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cease all collaboration with the World Health Organization.

The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.

ATLANTA (AP) — US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

In line with Trump's executive order to end all collaboration with the WHO, the CDC has been instructed to end all communications and work with the international public health agency.

The World Health Organization has urged the United State to reconsider its withdrawal from the global health agency. It comes a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling ...

US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest nonprofit HIV/AIDS healthcare organization, was recently honored with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award during The King Center’s annual “Beloved Community Awards” in Atlanta.

The pair of mandates will effectively silo U.S. public health agencies from their international counterparts and sever the American public, health providers, and research hubs from information about infectious diseases, budding epidemics, and even outbreaks of foodborne and waterborne illnesses.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.