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U.S. Inks Health Agreements with Nine African Nations

The U.S. government has signed health agreements with at least nine African countries as part of a new global health funding approach under the Trump administration, shifting from traditional aid to deals based on negotiations and mutual benefits.

Countries including Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda were among the first to sign agreements under the new framework, which tied assistance to U.S. priorities and aimed to provide less aid while promoting self-sufficiency. Some signatory countries had been affected by U.S. aid cuts or had separate arrangements with Washington to host third-country deportees, though officials denied any connection.

The agreements replaced previous health arrangements under the dismantled USAID, even as U.S. aid cuts weakened health systems across Africa and other developing regions that had relied on the funding for critical disease response programmes.

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