RELATED:African Health Authorities Urge U.S. to Lift Travel Restrictions to Uganda Amid Ebola OutbreakThe strategy aims to rebuild U.S. global health assistance around a new generation of bilateral agreements. All of these, Kavaarpuo said, amounted to “outsourcing the health data architecture of the country to a foreign body.” Ghanaian Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said the refusal of the health agreement was part of Ghana’s push for “health sovereignty,” adding that Ghana wants a meaningful partnership which “did not come with restrictive conditions.” African analysts describe the arrangement with Washington as a transaction rather than a partnership, in which the price of the aid is the recipient countries’ health data, minerals and regulatory authority. Exporting rules and pursuing a strategic advantage under the banner of assistance is far removed from what global health cooperation is meant to be, they argue.