Oversight Action
The Subcommittee is absolutely committed to aggressive and responsible congressional oversight of all federal spending. We will convene hearings, identify problems, and provide information to the Congress and the public. However, it is up to the American people to demand that their elected officials respond vigorously to the findings.
August 21, 2006
Dr. Coburn writes Wolfowitz, World Bank; requests reform & accountability of controversial malaria initiatives
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.
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