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USA: Staggering need, striking neglect

Submitted by clarke on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 17:43

USA: Staggering need, striking neglect - In a city ravaged by the highest rate of AIDS cases in the nation, the Washington D.C. Health Department paid millions to nonprofit groups that delivered substandard services or failed to account for any work at all, even as sick people searched for care or died waiting. All told, the Health Department's HIV/AIDS Administration awarded more than $25 million from 2004 to 2008 to nonprofit agenc... [AIDSPORTAL.org]