NYT/AP: Experts Rip World Bank on Malaria Work

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Experts Rip World Bank on Malaria Work
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 25, 2006

LONDON (AP) -- A group of public health experts accused the World Bank on Tuesday of faking medical data, approving useless treatments and reneging on promises to help fund the fight against malaria.

A dozen experts who signed the opinion piece in the online version of the British medical journal The Lancet charged that the bank falsified data to indicate progress against malaria and approved obsolete treatments for a potentially deadly form of the disease -- charges the institution hotly denies.

The article accuses the bank of not honoring a 2000 pledge of between $300 million and $500 million in loans to fight malaria in Africa. The piece says that, according to the bank's most recent accounting, it has spent between $100 million and $150 million, plus some unspecified funds that are ''difficult to quantify.''

''The bank failed to lend Africa the funds for malaria control that it said it would, and rather than admit this with candor, the bank concealed the fact by using untransparent and contradictory accounting,'' immunologist Amir Attaran, who also is a lawyer at the Institute of Population Health at Canada's University of Ottawa, wrote in the article.

The World Bank disputed many of the criticisms in the article, acknowledging that its malaria programs have been understaffed and underfunded but insisting that the bank has learned from its mistakes and moved to set things right...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-World-Bank-Malaria.html

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1. Here's the big question

Is this intentional, or *just* mismanagement? Consider the leadership................

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6. Follow the money.............. look at who PROFITS.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Experts Rip World Bank on Malaria Work

Experts Rip World Bank on Malaria Work
By DANICA KIRKA

Associated Press Writer

April 25, 2006, 10:27 AM EDT

LONDON -- A group of public health experts accused the World Bank on Tuesday of faking medical data, approving useless treatments and reneging on promises to help fund the fight against malaria.

A dozen experts who signed the opinion piece in the online version of the British medical journal The Lancet charged that the bank falsified data to indicate progress against malaria and approved obsolete treatments for a potentially deadly form of the disease -- charges the institution hotly denies.

The article accuses the bank of not honoring a 2000 pledge of between $300 million and $500 million in loans to fight malaria in Africa. The piece says that, according to the bank's most recent accounting, it has spent between $100 million and $150 million, plus some unspecified funds that are "difficult to quantify."

"The bank failed to lend Africa the funds for malaria control that it said it would, and rather than admit this with candor, the bank concealed the fact by using untransparent and contradictory accounting," immunologist Amir Attaran, who also is a lawyer at the Institute of Population Health at Canada's University of Ottawa, wrote in the article.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-world-bank-malaria,0,5812487.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines



Heckuvajob, Wolfie.

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3. shocking

just shocking. I don't know if I can contain my surprise. :sarcasm:

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Nothing schocking

Why spend money?
Spend money to make money that has been a policy for longtime

Sadly people all over the world lose
Rich man win.

In a way UN broken
It has been taken over long time ago
In the name of America the powerful
It is nothing but a tool for the bunch and his friends in the White House
And that is the sad truth.

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5. Wolfie used "untransparent and contradictory accounting?" What else could

we expect from a BushCo insider?

Wolfie was no doubt installed as head of the World Bank to give out corporate welfare checks to the execs of Big Oil and other good buds.