{"id":67283,"date":"2026-02-25T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-accused-of-shameless-exploitation-over-proposed-zambian-health-aid-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:59:00","slug":"us-accused-of-shameless-exploitation-over-proposed-zambian-health-aid-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-accused-of-shameless-exploitation-over-proposed-zambian-health-aid-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"US accused of \u2018shameless exploitation\u2019 over proposed Zambian health aid deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked draft of $1bn memorandum of understanding reveals mandatory targets, sharing of data, and reported access to mining concessions<\/p>\n<p>The US has been accused of \u201cshameless exploitation\u201d over a health financing agreement with Zambia worth more than $1bn (\u00a3740m), amid warnings that the country is getting a raw deal from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked draft of a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two countries, seen by the Guardian, reveals that Zambia may accept terms worse than health financing agreements the US has reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgdev.org\/publication\/rolling-out-trump-administrations-global-health-agreements-what-can-we-learn-past\">with 16 other African countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/25\/zambia-us-health-aid-deal-exploitation-mining-concessions-data-sharing-targets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked draft of $1bn memorandum of understanding reveals mandatory targets, sharing of data, and reported access to mining concessions The US has been accused of \u201cshameless exploitation\u201d over a health financing agreement with Zambia worth more than $1bn (\u00a3740m), amid warnings that the country is getting a raw deal from the Trump administration. A leaked &#8230; <a title=\"US accused of \u2018shameless exploitation\u2019 over proposed Zambian health aid deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-accused-of-shameless-exploitation-over-proposed-zambian-health-aid-deal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US accused of \u2018shameless exploitation\u2019 over proposed Zambian health aid deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}