{"id":547,"date":"2026-10-07T02:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=547"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:48:15","slug":"547","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambia to sign Ksh.194B US health pact after resolving differences over data-sharing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20241009__XxjpbeE007553_20241009_PEPFN0A001__v1__HighRes__ZambiaLusakaMiningAnd-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20241009__XxjpbeE007553_20241009_PEPFN0A001__v1__HighRes__ZambiaLusakaMiningAnd-og_image.webp 945w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20241009__XxjpbeE007553_20241009_PEPFN0A001__v1__HighRes__ZambiaLusakaMiningAnd-og_image-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20241009__XxjpbeE007553_20241009_PEPFN0A001__v1__HighRes__ZambiaLusakaMiningAnd-og_image-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambia&#8217;s government will sign an agreement allowing it to receive $1.5 billion in health funding from the United States after resolving \u200bconcerns over Washington&#8217;s request for medical data, its health \u200cminister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year negotiations stalled over Zambia&#8217;s concerns over data privacy and a US attempt to tie the funding to access to critical minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below \u200bare more comments by Health Minister Roma Chilengi at a \u200bpress conference:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia to sign Ksh.194B US health pact after resolving differences over data-sharing Zambia&#8217;s government will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}