AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY PRINCIPLE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON HEALTH SECURITY IN ABAKALIKI TOWN, EBONYI STATE.

Abstract

Despite benefits of foreign aids to receiving country and their potent usage by donor as instrumentalities of soft power, President Trump decided against continued Official Development Assistant, by gutting United States Agency for International Development. Consequently, this study interrogates America first foreign policy principle and its implications on health security in Abakaliki town. A survey method involving four hundred sample population, with Five-point Likert scale questionnaire was used. Collected data were analysed using simple percentage, frequency and mean, whereas Chi-square was used to test the hypothesis. Isolationist theory provided an explanatory framework for the study. Findings indicated that Trump’s stop work order against USAID, affected health security in Abakaliki town, through un-sustained fight against malaria hitherto done through US Presidential Malaria Initiative for States. It therefore recommends not only comprehensive approach to fighting diseases, but less dependent on foreign aids.