Africa: US – Global Health Aid Tied to Harmful Conditions

Washington — Pacts Require Abortion Surveillance, Rights to Specimen Sharing, Data Access

The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch issued an assessment of seven bilateral health agreements signed in late 2025 with Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Liberia, and Uganda.

“The agreements…