Today, the United States signed five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the governments of Uganda and Lesotho to advance the American First Global Health Strategy and build resilient, self-reliant, and durable health systems in both countries.<\/p>\n
In Kampala, the United States and Uganda signed a five-year, nearly $2.3 billion bilateral health cooperation agreement that signifies the importance of the relationship between the two countries. As part of the agreement, the United States plans to invest up to $1.7 billion to combat HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria and other infectious diseases across Uganda while helping strengthen Uganda\u2019s health system. As part of the agreement, the Government of Uganda pledged to co-invest over $500 million in line with the National Development Plan IV and Uganda\u2019s Vision 2040. The agreement will further Uganda\u2019s national health digitalization effort, as well as provide support for faith-based health care providers and for health care services to the Ugandan military, which is assisting with a number of key operations in the region.<\/p>\n
In Lesotho, the United States and Lesotho signed a five-year, $364 million bilateral health MOU. Through this agreement, the State Department, working with Congress, intends to provide up to $232 million over the next five years to support Lesotho\u2019s efforts to combat HIV\/AIDS, while bolstering the health workforce, data systems, and disease surveillance and outbreak response. As part of the MOU, the Government of Lesotho intends to invest $132 million in its domestic HIV\/AIDS response. From internet connectivity for health clinics to advanced robotics delivery of life-saving medical products, the $364 million MOU opens the door to innovations that mutually advance health care and the local economy.<\/p>\n
The United States will continue to sign multi-year\u202fBilateral Agreements on Global Health Cooperation<\/a>\u202fwith dozens of countries receiving U.S. health\u00a0assistance\u00a0in the coming weeks to advance the\u00a0America First Global Health Strategy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the United States signed five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the governments of Uganda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-186349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}