The US gov't shut down USAID in 2025, abruptly cutting health care supply chains and global health programs, causing immense harm. The new US health aid packages for 7 African countries are conditioned on abortion surveillance, extractive rights to pathogen samples, and access to Zambia’s minerals.
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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.
