Argentina to leave WHO March 17

Argentina will formally leave the World Health Organization on March 17 2026, according to its representatives to the WHO.

When he first announced the decision last year, Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, was blunt about why his country was walking away:

“We have decided to leave such a harmful organisation, which was the executing arm of what was the largest social-control experiment in history.”

At the very same Executive Board meeting where Argentina’s withdrawal was confirmed, China attacked the United States for its own decision to leave the organisation.

The Chinese representative declared that member states should “safeguard the authority and standing of the WHO” and warned that countries should not “treat the WHO as something to be used when it suits them and abandoned when it does not”, nor should they “bypass the WHO and set up alternative mechanisms”.

Of course China would take the WHO’s side. The current set-up suits Beijing perfectly.

Indeed, the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic found that the WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros, “went so far as to praise the CCP’s ‘transparency’ during the COVID crisis, when, in fact, the regime consistently lied to the world”.

The reaction from the WHO and its allies now looks like the first stage of grief: denial. Instead of recognising their own failures or seriously engaging with the reasons why countries are choosing to leave, they are refusing to accept that the problem might lie with the organisation itself.

Sovereign countries do not exist to safeguard the authority of global institutions. International institutions should serve countries.