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Trump plan to withdraw US from WHO poses global health risk, THL chief says

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The Finnish director general of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Mika Salminen said he finds it difficult to understand why US President Donald Trump wants the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO) The United States is WHO 's biggest financial supporter, paying out around 18 percent of its funding.

The WHO is a specialised agency of the United Nations whose mission is to protect public health.

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