New York — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that it will re -focus the foreign health assistance strategy on multi -year bilateral deals with receiving countries, making aid dependent on negotiations that officials say will help reduce waste and progress in American priorities.
“We must maintain what is good in our foreign assistance programs while repairing what is broken quickly,” Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said in a message about the new strategy. “We will remain the health leader in the world and the most generous nation in the world, but we will do this in a way that directly benefits the American people and enhances our national interest directly.”
The new approach is in line with President Donald Trump’s style from Dealing with other countries transactionsUsing direct conversations with foreign governments to enhance its agenda abroad. It depends on its sharp role of traditional American foreign assistance, which supporters say we have helped in interests by installing other countries and economies and building alliances.
It also fits with Trump’s concerns that external aid in previous departments has spacked from America’s values. His administration dismantled the United States Agency for International Development, or the United States Agency for International Development, and reduced billions of foreign aid funds approved by Congress. A Freezing external aid Earlier this year, temporarily stopped funding for programs including the US President’s Emergency Emergency Plan, or Pepfar, which was credited with providing more than 26 million people.
The new plan will give countries more “skin in the game” about the health assistance they receive and motivate governments to work in order not to eventually need the United States, according to a senior administration official that occurs provided that his identity is not disclosed to brief correspondents before the strategy was announced.
An overview of the plan issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that global health programs “have become ineffective and threatened.” The administration says that it will focus the dollars in foreign health in the future on medicines, diagnostic tools and other front lines needs while transferring other things that are funded once they are funded, such as managing programs and technical assistance, to governments in the recipient countries.
The administration said that specific budget changes will be determined through negotiations with individual countries. This will start in the coming months with the aim of having new agreements in the spring of 2026. The administration has pledged that all the costs of the front line, including workers who run health care for patients, will be covered according to new deals.
The official and the second official and the second official of the United States, who spoke in the event of anonymity, said that the administration will continue to support the areas that are fighting in HIV, including in parts of Africa, but it directs more funding to partners in Western and Asia and the Pacific, and said the senior administration official and the second American official, who occurred under the same state of not disclosing his identity. The officials said that funding will be transformed from the NGOs that the administration views as dealing with its money in an irresponsible manner.
The management strategy document descends Pepfar with saying that it is ineffective and spends a lot of its budget on the general costs that may be duplicate.
The strategy also lists monitoring of diseases all over the world as an important goal and pledged to increase US government employees in areas most at risk of fascism.