KAMPALA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Uganda will get up to $1.7 billion of U.S. funding for its health sector over the next five years, making it the latest African country to agree a pact with the Trump administration since it overhauled its approach to foreign aid.<\/p>\n
Kenya<\/a> and Rwanda<\/a> agreed similar deals in recent days under Trump’s “America First Global Health Strategy”.<\/p>\n Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n The strategy calls for poorer nations to play a bigger role in fighting infectious diseases in their countries and eventually transition from aid to self-reliance.<\/p>\n The U.S. funds will support priority health programmes in Uganda on HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health and polio amongst other things, the U.S. embassy in Uganda said in a statement.<\/p>\n Uganda’s government will increase its own health expenditure by $500 million “to gradually assume greater financial responsibility over the course of the framework,” its finance ministry said in a post on X.<\/p>\n “This collaboration will yield not only disease-specific outcomes but also significant improvements in national systems, institutions and workforce capacity,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said.<\/p>\n The U.S. has been a major donor to Uganda’s health sector, but financial support has fallen this year after Trump cut the foreign aid budget and shuttered USAID.<\/p>\n Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n
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