00:00We did, as a government, request the United States to support us in this space, and they acceded to our request.
00:11And when I got the invitation, I did propose that maybe that was a good occasion to sign off on the agreement that we were discussing.
00:30The government of the United States did send in officials from Washington to come to Kenya.
00:40We did undertake the negotiations, and I must commend C.S. Duale, P.S. Oluga, and the teams at Ministry of Health for working over time with the support of the Office of the Attorney General
01:05to finalize on that agreement and to facilitate the signing of that agreement on my visit to the United States last week.
01:18For the people of Kenya, the United States is supporting Kenya with $1.6 billion, which is just over 200 billion shillings over the next five years, in the health sector,
01:38a sector they have been supporting for a long time.
01:41In fact, the numbers show that the United States has spent $7 billion in Kenya on matters of health over time.
01:56Let me also say that this facility is not alone.
02:02I have seen some comments whether we are contracting more debt, just to assure the nation that this is not a loan facility.
02:16I have also been careful to make sure that the negotiations were clear.
02:28In Kenya, if you followed, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, did state clearly that we have working institutions in Kenya.
02:47We did not become the first country to sign an agreement on health with the United States by default.
02:59We became the first country by design because we have the requisite institutions
03:07and we have the requisite human capital with the capacity to undertake any negotiation.
03:17We have to take two of theольно-regulated institutions in Kenya against Kenya.
03:19For those countries to seek assistance in Kenya, the current country and the existence of Kenya, the future of Kenya,
03:22the UN-SATA, and the UN-SATA, and the UN-SATA, the UN-SATA.
03:26To be connected here, we will be able to increase the authority of the UN-SATA.
03:31It is the UN-SATA, and what the UN-SATA should be kept in the UN-SATA.
03:33The UN-NATA is anytime that you have the UN-SATA, the UN-SATA, I want to be connected to UN-SATA, I wanted like to add our UN-SATA, and I wanted to cover the UN-SATA, but we have a UN-SATA, but I wanted to work on the UN-SATA.
03:37So it is the UN-SATA, which we have the UN-SATA.
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