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Regards to updating membership count

As of January 21, 2025, the United States remains a member of the World Health Organization (WHO). On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to initiate the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO.

This withdrawal requires a one-year notice period, making it effective on January 20, 2026. Therefore, the U.S. is still officially part of the WHO at this time. Bamaboi445 (talk) 17:18, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is currently reflected by the article. SmolBrane (talk) 17:36, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for raising this. It was 194 members until someone edited it to 193 until that got reverted. So your concern isn't unwarranted, but it's been taken care of! But not a bad idea to have a few more eyes on future edits. AncientWalrus (talk) 20:28, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The WHO membership map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#/media/File:World_Health_Organization_membership_status_map.png (and showing in this article) has currently been changed to grey out the majority of the USA. This needs to be changed back to green to reflect the ongoing status of the USA being a current member (noting that this will likely need to be updated in a year or so) 1dragon (talk) 06:37, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the map is obviously wrong, I reverted both changes (one of changing the map and one of adding the map to the infobox). AncientWalrus (talk) 09:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually theres an edit war at the commons file and I did the revert there. The change from PNG to SVG here was fine. I wouldn't add the map to the infobox though. Thanks for raising the important point of the map's wrongness. Im watching it now for soapboxing. AncientWalrus (talk) 10:03, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the SVG change wasn't fine. I wrongly assumed that SVG was equivalent to PNG. It's not, the SVG has many inaccuracies. AncientWalrus (talk) 03:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

maybe change the color in USA to red as pending withdrawal? (that executive order really initiated the process or so) 2A02:85F:E8EF:AA00:5473:114:DBB9:B0D (talk) 07:02, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Argentina membership

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, made official through a statement the withdrawal of the Argentine Republic from the WHO. I am not sure if it has already been officially released or if the process is still underway. Because in the statement Javier Milei states: “He has made the decision to withdraw the Argentine Republic from the WHO”

[1]https://x.com/OPRArgentina/status/1887154101936386074 ULIFOX 3XX (talk) 22:05, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]