Dr. Coburn sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury requesting the agency take accountability for failing World Bank malaria initiatives. To read the letter, please click here.
The World Bank has faced scathing critiques in recent months in a few key areas: the Bank’s reliance on ineffective drugs to treat malaria; the Bank’s failure to make use of IRS/DDT as a preventative measure; and, finally, the financial disarray of the Bank’s malaria funds – both in accounting for how funds are spent, and for not keeping its promises about the amount of funding to have been directed to malaria in past years.
For more background and news coverage of accusations of medical malpractice and financial mismanagement in global malaria control, please click here.
Dr. Coburn has held two hearings in the Federal Financial Management on Malaria.
Malaria hearing 2006: click here to view.
Malaria hearing 2005: click here to view.
