{"id":235818,"date":"2026-06-09T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-us-global-health-aid-tied-to-harmful-conditions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:26:17","slug":"africa-us-global-health-aid-tied-to-harmful-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-us-global-health-aid-tied-to-harmful-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: US &#8211; Global Health Aid Tied to Harmful Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Washington \u2014 <em>Pacts Require Abortion Surveillance, Rights to Specimen Sharing, Data Access<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/united-states\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2026\/06\/08\/human-rights-assessment-of-the-2025-2026-us-bilateral-health-agreements\" rel=\"noopener\">assessment<\/a> of seven bilateral health agreements signed in late 2025 with Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Liberia, and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;The agreements&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090105.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00551757:d801762ba8c46b944142abf5b4029891:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7828,8288,6212,12629,5731,682,257,254,7889],"class_list":["post-235818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-conditions","tag-global","tag-harmful","tag-health","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tied"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00551757:d801762ba8c46b944142abf5b4029891:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235818","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}