The Trump administration has been quietly negotiating to scale back on traditional foreign aid and reconfigure the U.S. approach to fighting HIV and tuberculosis in developing countries. However, due to the government's failure to publicly disclose the full terms of these agreements, this secrecy has frustrated partner nations and angered transparency advocates, who fear that the billions of dollars meant to combat diseases are being used by the Trump administration as leverage to secure concessions on controversial policies in other areas from these countries.
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