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December 25, 2006
Our Watchword is Accountability
Internal auditors at PEPFAR are reporting that the "management and evaluation" plank of the program is not exactly up to snuff. One hallmark of Bush's global AIDS plan was its focus on accountability. Rather than measuring results in dollars spent, it would measure people on treatment, infections prevented (a tough thing to tabulate) and people cared for. The initial benchmark to treat 2 million, prevent 7 million infections and care for 10 million people by 2008. The audits show that the reported numbers were sometimes too high while others were too low. PEPFAR head Mark Dybul makes the reasonable point that waiting to have perfect accounting systems in place would have cost lives. But some of the inaccuracies made their way into reports to Congress.
Posted by Adam Graham-Silverman at December 25, 2006 09:34 PM