America First Bilateral Health Agreements Threaten to Undermine the Multilateral Global Health Order.

Authors

Sharifah Sekalala, Shajoe J Lake, Allan Maleche, Maria Birungi, Frank Ssekamwa

Published in

The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Pages 1-3. Aug 27, 2026. Epub Aug 27, 2026.

Abstract

During the second Trump administration, the United States has signed bilateral health agreements with at least 27 states across Africa and Latin America, reshaping how signatory countries finance, regulate, and monitor their health systems. Grounded in the America First Global Health Strategy, these agreements are being signed as US withdrawal from WHO restructures global health. This column explores how this turn to bilateralism risks weakening multilateral legal obligations on capacity development, access and benefit sharing, transparency, and the right to health.

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42656175
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 27 Aug 2026.

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