US engaging Ghana to review rejected health compact agreement - Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama announced that the U.S. is seeking to renegotiate a previously rejected health compact agreement with Ghana. The government's primary concerns involve privacy provisions regarding national pathogen profiles and medical records.
Why it matters
The dispute highlights ongoing tensions regarding national sovereignty and data privacy in international health cooperation agreements.
Goaso (Ahafo Region), Oct. 10, GNA – The United States is engaging Ghana to review the health compact agreement that was previously rejected by the Government, President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed.
The President made the disclosure in Goaso while responding to a question on the agreement during a Citizens’ Engagement held on the final day of his two-day Resetting Ghana Tour of the Ahafo Region.
He recalled that last month he outlined the reasons for Ghana’s rejection of the agreement during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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