Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said his government rejected a proposed US health compact "in record time", calling some of its conditions "humiliating" and raising concerns over medical data and Ghana's control over imported health products.

Mahama linked the decision to a broader push for African health sovereignty, saying the withdrawal of US aid had left Ghana with a $74 million gap in its health budget, affecting medical research, laboratories, HIV testing and antiretroviral drugs.

"It says that we shall give the United States our pathogen profile. And then it also says we should give our medical records. I mean, who takes another country's medical records? And so that was strange," Mahama said in Accra on Monday.

"It also says that any medications or any medical products that shall be brought into our country, our Food and Drug Administration has absolutely no right to inspect. I mean, it was humiliating," he added. "I've never seen anything thrown out as fast as that. And so, of course, we rejected it."