Under the America First Global Health Strategy, the United States is advancing a new model of global health\u00a0assistance\u2014one that prioritizes the protection of the American people from infectious disease threats while empowering\u00a0recipient\u00a0countries to achieve self-reliance and accountability\u00a0within their\u00a0national\u00a0healthcare systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Today, the United States and the\u00a0Government\u00a0of Malawi signed a five-year, $936 million bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that sets a\u00a0new\u00a0course for national ownership, co-investment, and measurable results.\u00a0Under the arrangement, working with Congress, the United States intends to provide up to $792 million over the next five years to support Malawi\u2019s efforts to combat HIV\/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases, and bolster disease surveillance and outbreak response.\u00a0\u00a0Malawi will increase its overall annual health spending by an\u00a0additional\u00a0$143.8\u00a0million during the life of the MOU.\u00a0The MOU\u00a0is designed to\u00a0leverage\u00a0Malawi\u2019s\u00a0significant progress\u00a0in addressing the HIV\/AIDS epidemic, supporting the country\u2019s commitment to\u00a0maintaining\u00a0its 95-95-95 goals for epidemic control through sustainable, integrated service delivery approaches that the government\u00a0will\u00a0self-maintain\u00a0after the MOU concludes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The MOU marks a\u00a0critical\u00a0shift away from parallel NGO delivery systems and the healthcare workforce structures\u00a0they created,\u00a0restoring responsibility for those resources to the national government.\u00a0Under this\u00a0new approach,\u00a0Malawi will co-invest in a comprehensive range of health priorities\u2014including HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health, polio, and global health security\u2014while supporting\u00a0cutting-edge\u00a0solutions such as digitalization to reach rural populations.\u00a0This\u00a0MOU\u00a0will put\u00a0Malawi on\u00a0a\u00a0path toward\u00a0a more durable, responsive, and sustainable\u00a0Malawian\u00a0health system\u00a0while ensuring Americans are protected\u00a0from global health threats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the America First Global Health Strategy, the United States is advancing a new model of global health\u00a0assistance\u2014one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-516146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115895029280467473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}