{"id":67482,"date":"2026-02-27T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/rising-anger-over-lop-sided-and-immoral-us-health-funding-pacts-with-african-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:10:04","slug":"rising-anger-over-lop-sided-and-immoral-us-health-funding-pacts-with-african-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/rising-anger-over-lop-sided-and-immoral-us-health-funding-pacts-with-african-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising anger over \u2018lop-sided\u2019 and \u2018immoral\u2019 US health funding pacts with African countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny<\/p>\n<p>A series of bilateral health agreements being negotiated between African countries and the administration of President Donald Trump have been labelled \u201cclearly lop-sided\u201d and \u201cimmoral\u201d amid growing outrage at US demands, including countries being forced to share biological resources and data.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged this week that Zimbabwe had halted negotiations with the US for $350m (\u00a3258m) of health funding, saying the proposals risked undermining its sovereignty and independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/27\/rising-anger-over-lop-sided-immoral-us-health-funding-pacts-africa-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny A series of bilateral health agreements being negotiated between African countries and the administration of President Donald Trump have been labelled \u201cclearly lop-sided\u201d and \u201cimmoral\u201d amid growing outrage at US demands, including countries being &#8230; <a title=\"Rising anger over \u2018lop-sided\u2019 and \u2018immoral\u2019 US health funding pacts with African countries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/rising-anger-over-lop-sided-and-immoral-us-health-funding-pacts-with-african-countries\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rising anger over \u2018lop-sided\u2019 and \u2018immoral\u2019 US health funding pacts with African countries\">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-67482","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\/67482","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=67482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}