Inside Trump’s push to remake global women’s health around the world

Published August 24, 2026 6:00am ET | Updated August 24, 2026 8:47am ET



President Donald Trump reentered the White House with lofty goals to reshape U.S. foreign policy in pursuit of an “America First” global position.

Within his first month in office, Trump rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a women’s health treaty drafted in the first Trump administration. Last week, the State Department and Department of Health and Human Services announced the GCD’s secretariat would be moved from Hungary to the United States.

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