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The WHO is lead by a Director-General. The present Director-General in [[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus]] who took office in April 2017.
The [[United States of America]] resigned from membership in the WHO on 20 January 2025.<ref name="trump2025">{{REFdocument
|title=Executive Order Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization
|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/
|contribution=
|last=Trump
|first=Donald
|publisher=The White House
|format=
|date=2025-01-20
|accessdate=2025-01-21
}}</ref>
==Funding==
In fact, the study is scientifically vulnerable and has since been sharply criticized by experts.
The [[United States]] announced in February 2025 that [[PEPFAR]] would terminate its African circumcision program.
== Guideline Development Group (GDG) ==
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In a letter to Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, {{MD}}, (2020) the head of the United States [[PEPFAR ]] program, [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] called circumcision ineffective and called for [[PEPFAR ]] to abandon the WHO VMMC program and redirect its funds to anti-retroviral therapy and the provision of condomʂ<ref>{{REFdocument
|title=World Health Organization, HIV, and male circumcision
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/images/2020-06-15b_LettertoPEPFAR.pdf