{"id":21577,"date":"2025-12-24T05:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/us-signs-health-agreements-with-african-nations-warns-against-nonperformance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:36","slug":"us-signs-health-agreements-with-african-nations-warns-against-nonperformance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-signs-health-agreements-with-african-nations-warns-against-nonperformance\/","title":{"rendered":"US signs health agreements with African nations, warns against nonperformance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) signed four new global health memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Ethiopia, which total nearly $2.3 billion in funding, the State Department said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each MOU includes clear benchmarks, strict timelines, and consequences for nonperformance, ensuring US assistance delivers results against priority disease threats and reduces long-term dependence on US assistance,&#8221; the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across the four MOUs, which total nearly $2.3 billion, the US has committed almost $1.4 billion, with recipient countries co-investing more than $900 million of their own resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21578,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-21577","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"US signed four new global health memorandums of understanding","published_date":"2025-12-24 07:11:12","news_description":"US signed four new global health memorandums of understanding","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21577\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}