Advancing the America First Global Health Strategy and Promoting American Innovation

Today, the Department of State announced an agreement to provide up to $150 million to Zipline International Inc. to expand access to life-saving medical supplies, including blood and medicines, reaching as many as 15,000 health facilities across Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda. The Department of State is supporting Zipline’s American-made advanced robotics, providing people in rural areas who face slow and unreliable logistics with the life-saving medical products they want.

The Trump Administration, in partnership with U.S. and African innovators and policymakers, is advancing cutting-edge technologies that are strengthening health outcomes and enhancing emergency responses to infectious disease outbreaks. This collaboration makes America more prosperous by creating jobs in America and across Africa, and safer by preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

This innovative and results-driven initiative signals a new era of diplomacy; one that uses American expertise to drive progress on global health foreign policy goals and economic development through private-public sector collaboration. Through this landmark partnership, this administration is leveraging artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous logistics to improve health outcomes.

This public-private sector strategy uses milestone-based payments and co-financing commitments with partner governments to ensure sustainability and recipient government participation, strengthening resilient and durable health systems across Africa, in line with the America First Global Health Strategy.

The Department of State is committed to expanding markets for American companies by promoting unmatched innovation in technology, science, and medicine.  American expertise is the preferred infrastructure investment in Africa, and this agreement will counter alternative debt-financed infrastructure exports.