United States Provides Health Supplies and Equipment to Madagascar

The United States handed over a major health aid package to Madagascar, delivering nearly one million long‑lasting insecticide‑treated mosquito nets, over 900,000 pieces of laboratory and medical equipment, and 33 Starlink satellite internet systems. The assistance, valued at more than $2.2 million, is part of a bilateral Global Health Memorandum of Understanding signed in December 2025, which commits the United States to provide $134 million in health support from 2026 through 2030, matched by $41 million from Madagascar.

Chargé d’Affaires Steve Bremner emphasized that the aid is “a tool of strategic engagement, not global charity,” and stressed that each U.S. taxpayer dollar must produce measurable results and reduce long‑term dependence. The supplies aim to strengthen Madagascar’s capacity to detect and contain infectious diseases such as malaria, monkeypox, plague, rabies, polio and Ebola, protecting both Malagasy and American families.

The delivery ceremony was attended by Madagascar’s Refoundation leader Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, who thanked the United States and reaffirmed the country’s openness to cooperation that supports its health system and the well‑being of its population.