Ghana has rejected a bilateral health deal with the U.S., a source \u200cfamiliar with the negotiations told Reuters, the latest stumbling block to the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul foreign aid.<\/p>\n
The government of President John Dramani Mahama balked at terms requiring the sharing of sensitive health data, the source said.<\/p>\n
The \u200bsame issue sank talks with\u00a0Zimbabwe\u00a0this year and also prompted a court to\u00a0suspend implementation of \u200bKenya’s deal pending the hearing of a case filed by a consumer protection \u2060group.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople for Ghana’s foreign ministry and government did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The U.S. State \u200bDepartment said that it does not disclose details of bilateral negotiations.<\/p>\n
“We continue to look for ways to \u200bstrengthen the bilateral partnership between our two countries,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration in September announced a new “America First Global Health Strategy” that calls for poorer nations to play a bigger role in fighting HIV\/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and \u200bpolio in their countries and eventually transition from aid to self-reliance.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Agency for International Development \u200bwas dismantled earlier this year.<\/p>\n
INTENSE U.S. ‘PRESSURE’ TO SIGN DEAL, SOURCE SAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.S. has disbursed $219 million in foreign assistance to \u200cGhana, \u2060including $96 million specifically for health, for 2024, the year before the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid, according to government foreign assistance data.<\/p>\n The deal that the two sides started negotiating last November would have called for $109 million in U.S. assistance for health over five years, the source said. It was \u200bunclear how much Ghana \u200bwould have been expected \u2060to pay.<\/p>\n “They were pretty normal dealings and negotiations in the beginning, and then increasingly there was a lot more pressure, especially at the end,” the \u200bsource said.<\/p>\n Washington then set April 24 as the deadline to conclude the \u200bnegotiations, and \u2060Accra decided it could not agree to what was being proposed, the source said.<\/p>\n Ghana has communicated its position to the Trump administration, the source said.<\/p>\n As of Monday, the State Department had signed 32 deals under \u2060the “America \u200bFirst Global Health Strategy” representing $20.6 billion in funding, made up \u200bof $12.8 billion from the U.S. and $7.8 billion in “co-investment from recipient countries”, the State Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Washington expects additional memorandums of understanding \u200bto be signed in the near future, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana has rejected a bilateral health deal with the U.S., a source \u200cfamiliar with the negotiations told Reuters, the latest stumbling block to the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul foreign aid. The government of President John Dramani Mahama balked at terms requiring the sharing of sensitive health data, the source said. The \u200bsame issue sank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2854,27],"tags":[5066,1643,158],"class_list":["post-20655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-west-africa","tag-america-first-global-health-strategy","tag-donald-trump","tag-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20656,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions\/20656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}