The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tanzania to invest more than $1.3 billion in \u200bits health sector over the next five years, the latest \u200cin a series of deals that have caused controversy in some African countries.<\/p>\n
The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, \u200bKenya, and\u00a0Uganda\u00a0under U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First Global Health \u200bStrategy”, designed to make poorer nations more self-reliant as the \u2060U.S. has\u00a0dismantled foreign aid programmes.<\/p>\n
The pact says that in return for \u200bmore than $1.3 billion in investment, Tanzania has committed to investing $1.8 billion in \u200bthe health sector over the same period, according to a statement from the U.S. embassy in Tanzania.<\/p>\n
“This joint investment reflects both countries’ commitment to preventing the spread of \u200binfectious diseases, and strengthening Tanzania\u2019s capacity to finance, manage, and self-sustain \u200bessential health services,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
In some countries the pacts have run into resistance \u200cover \u2060concerns about conditions like allowing access to minerals and sharing personal health data and bio materials.<\/p>\n
Zambia\u00a0has rejected\u00a0demands that such a deal be tied to U.S. access to Zambian minerals while in Kenya a court \u200bin December\u00a0suspended part\u00a0\u200bof its deal \u2060until it hears a data privacy case filed by a consumer protection group.<\/p>\n
Tanzanian Health Minister Mohamed Mchengerwa said \u200bthe agreement did not include the sharing of \u200blaboratory samples \u2060with the U.S.<\/p>\n
“We did not enter into a specimen-sharing agreement,” Mchengerwa said during the signing ceremony, according to a video on the health ministry’s \u2060Instagram account.<\/p>\n
“Tanzania’s \u200bspecimens including those of outbreak, epidemic and \u200bpandemics potential will be tested, stored and governed here in Tanzania,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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