Africa

US Agrees on $1.7 Billion Health Funding Package With Uganda

Records during a nutrition screening at a health center in Karamoja region, Uganda.

Photographer: Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images

The US and Uganda have agreed on a $1.7 billion health financing, part of a program that seeks to wean African nations off aid.

The funds forms part of the US State Department’s longer-term America First Global Health Strategy, which promotes the procurement and distribution of goods from US companies in the administration’s foreign assistance programs.