By Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 – The U.S. will provide more than $1.6 billion to Kenya’s health system under a new five-year agreement signed on Thursday, the first such agreement reached under the Trump administration’s overhaul of foreign aid.

The administration in September announced a new “America First Global Health Strategy” that calls for poorer nations to play a bigger role in fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and polio in their countries and eventually transition from aid to self-reliance.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kenyan President William Ruto signed an agreement on the bilateral compact in which Kenya pledged to increase its own health spending by $850 million over the five years. Other African countries are expected to sign similar deals in the coming days,

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