Lawfare posted on 7 June 2020 a commentary titled "Health Diplomacy in Africa: Competition and Opportunity" by Mark P. Lagon, Georgetown University, and Rachel Sadoff, a student at Harvard.
The authors concluded that the United States can most effectively counter China's influence in Africa by more proactively pursuing health diplomacy, i.e. tackling COVID-19 and Ebola in addition to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.