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• Source: Center for Public Integrity
• Date: November 30, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Helena Bengtsson , Wendell Rawls
• Topics: Health Care , International
• Data Types: FOIA
• Description/Excerpt: A yearlong investigation by ICIJ, a division of the Center for Public Integrity, including in-country reporting from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Haiti, India and Thailand, disclosed that ideology has at times trumped science in the Bush administration's rules, regulations and support of the organizations that have received taxpayer money. The precise amounts are difficult to discover. While the State Department, through its Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, claims pride in its "transparency," the agency routinely takes a year or more to provide public documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. Facing long delays with not even an estimated delivery date, the Center for Public Integrity filed lawsuits to gain access to PEPFAR records. By comparison, USAID was relatively prompt, but the State Department held the bulk of the requested documents.
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