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Ghana has rejected a bilateral health deal with the United States (US), a source \u200cfamiliar with the negotiations told Reuters<\/em>, the latest stumbling block to the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul foreign aid.<\/p>\n

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The government of President John Dramani Mahama balked at terms requiring the sharing of sensitive health data, the source said.<\/p>\n

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The same issue sank talks with Zimbabwe this year and also prompted a court to suspend implementation of Kenya’s deal pending the hearing of a case filed by a consumer protection \u2060group.<\/p>\n

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Spokespeople for Ghana’s Foreign Ministry and Government did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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The US State Department said that it does not disclose details of bilateral negotiations.<\/p>\n

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“We continue to look for ways to strengthen the bilateral partnership between our two countries,” a Spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

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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 polio in their countries and eventually transition from aid to self-reliance.<\/p>\n

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The US Agency for International Development was dismantled earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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INTENSE US ‘PRESSURE’ TO SIGN DEAL, SOURCE SAYS<\/p>\n

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The US 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

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The deal that the two sides started negotiating last November would have called for $109 million in US assistance for health over five years, the source said. It was unclear how much Ghana would have been expected \u2060to pay.<\/p>\n

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“They were pretty normal dealings and negotiations in the beginning, and then increasingly there was a lot more pressure, especially at the end,” the source said.<\/p>\n

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Washington then set April 24 as the deadline to conclude the negotiations, and \u2060Accra decided it could not agree to what was being proposed, the source said.<\/p>\n

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Ghana has communicated its position to the Trump administration, the source said.<\/p>\n

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As of Monday, the State Department had signed 32 deals under \u2060the “America First Global Health Strategy” representing $20.6 billion in funding, made up of $12.8 billion from the US and $7.8 billion in “co-investment from recipient countries”, the State Department Spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

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Washington expects additional memorandums of understanding to be signed in the near future, the Spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

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