{"id":38624,"date":"2026-07-02T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38624"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:03:38","slug":"us-to-give-tanzania-1-3-bln-under-five-year-health-pact","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-to-give-tanzania-1-3-bln-under-five-year-health-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"US to give Tanzania $1.3 bln under five-year health pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The United States (US) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tanzania to invest more than $1.3 billion in its \u200bhealth sector over the next five years, the latest in \u200ca series of deals that have caused controversy in some African countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, Kenya, \u200band Uganda under US President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First Global Health Strategy&#8221;, \u200bdesigned to make poorer nations more self-reliant as the US has dismantled foreign aid programmes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Zambia has rejected demands that such a deal be tied to US access to Zambian minerals while in Kenya a court \u200bin December suspended part \u200bof its deal \u2060until it hears a data privacy case filed by a consumer protection group.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Tanzanian Health Minister Mohamed Mchengerwa said \u200bthe agreement did not include the sharing of laboratory \u200bsamples \u2060with the US.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We did not enter into a specimen-sharing agreement,&#8221; Mchengerwa said during the signing ceremony, according to a video on the Health Ministry&#8217;s Instagram \u2060account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Tanzania&#8217;s \u200bspecimens including those of outbreak, epidemic and \u200bpandemics potential will be tested, stored and governed here in Tanzania,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22980,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-38624","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, Kenya, \u200band Uganda","published_date":"","news_description":"The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, Kenya, \u200band Uganda","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38624","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38626,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38624\/revisions\/38626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}