The deal included provisions that would have allowed U.S. entities access to Ghana’s sensitive health data without necessary safeguards, according to Arnold Kavaarpuo, executive director of Ghana’s Data Protection Commission.
I’m SO relieved that the world is finally starting to stand up to the USA. They’re ultra imperialistic and use both soft power and hard power to achieve this. People forget that soft power is also a common tactic of imperialism. Other rich countries also have these issues, but Americans particularly have a “main character” stick up their asses about absolutely everything.
Donald Trump is just a cartoonified version of what many already thought of the US’s problems.
Absolutely valid. There are so many services that I would love to use if they weren’t just a front for a data harvesting operation.
Kingsman 3 just isn’t doing it for me so far.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. government has signed health deals with at least nine African countries, part of its new approach to global health funding, with agreements that reflect the Trump administration’s interests and priorities and are geared toward providing less aid and more mutual benefits.
The agreements signed so far, with Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda among others, are the first under the new global health framework, which makes aid dependent on negotiations between the recipient country and the U.S.
Some of the countries that have signed deals either have been hit by U.S. aid cuts or have separate agreements with the Trump administration to accept and host third-country deportees, although officials have denied any linkage.
The Trump administration says the new “America First” global health funding agreements are meant to increase self-sufficiency and eliminate what it says are ideology and waste from international assistance. The deals replace a patchwork of previous health agreements under the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development.
U.S. aid cuts have crippled health systems across the developing world, including in Africa, where many countries relied on the funding for crucial programs, including those responding to outbreaks of disease.
But really, read the whole article. It made me feel I need a shower.
