India, May 28 -- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the United States and Argentina have discussed launching an "alternative international health system" to the World Health Organization.

"I had a wonderful meeting with Argentine President JMilei about our nations' mutual withdrawal from the WHO and the creation of an alternative international health system based on gold-standard science and free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control," he said in a statement posted on X Tuesday after his visit to Buenos Aires earlier this week.

Kennedy also held a meeting with his Argentine counterpart Mario Lugones. In a highly critical joint statement regarding each country's withdrawal from the W...