{"id":219954,"date":"2026-01-10T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/botswana-advancing-the-america-first-global-health-strategy-through-landmark-bilateral-global-health-mous-with-botswana-madagascar-sierra-leone-and-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:52:23","slug":"botswana-advancing-the-america-first-global-health-strategy-through-landmark-bilateral-global-health-mous-with-botswana-madagascar-sierra-leone-and-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/botswana-advancing-the-america-first-global-health-strategy-through-landmark-bilateral-global-health-mous-with-botswana-madagascar-sierra-leone-and-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Advancing the America First Global Health Strategy Through Landmark Bilateral Global Health MOUs with Botswana, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Washington, DC \u2014 On December 22 and 23, the United States signed four additional new, landmark global health Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Ethiopia, reinforcing U.S. leadership that delivers measurable results for the American people and puts America First by directly countering global infectious disease threats and reducing foreign dependence on U.S. taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Across the four MOUs, which total nearly $2.3 billion, the United States has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2014 On December 22 and 23, the United States signed four additional new, landmark global health Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Ethiopia, reinforcing U.S. leadership that delivers measurable results for the American people and puts America First by directly countering global infectious disease threats and reducing foreign dependence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[27236,258,256,4567,6333,4718,4716,6212,5731,12583,6572,7973,8161,257,6571,1135,254,6986],"class_list":["post-219954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-advancing","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-america","tag-bilateral","tag-botswana","tag-ethiopia","tag-global","tag-health","tag-landmark","tag-leone","tag-madagascar","tag-mous","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}