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Nigeria’s $5 Billion Health Deal With Washington Under Fire Over a Clause Letting the U.S. Keep Using Nigerian Specimens After It Ends

The America First memorandum requires Nigeria to share specimens and data within five days of a U.S. request. Doctors and data-protection lawyers call parts of it “one-sided,” Atiku Abubakar wants it published in full, and Ghana’s president rejected a similar compact as “humiliating.”

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Nigeria's National Assembly building in Abuja, photographed on May 15, 2018. (File photo)Kabusa16 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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