Dr. Coburn sent a letter to the World Bank today requesting reform and accountability for World Bank malaria initiatives. To read the letter, please click here. To read the response from the World Bank, please click here.

 

In addition, Dr. Coburn earlier sent a letter on August 4, 2006, to the Department of the Treasury requesting immediate accountability for the measures recently critiqued in a recent peer-reviewed Lancet article.  For a copy of Dr. Coburn's letter to Treasury, 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 effective mosquito control techniques to prevent infection; and, finally, the financial disarray of the Bank’s malaria program – 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 Subcommittee on Malaria.

 

Malaria hearing 2006: click here to view.

 

Malaria hearing 2005: click here to view.