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When then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that a $107 million, five-year grant would be awarded to Harvard in February 2004 for conducting studies and treatment in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania, researchers were ecstatic...
There was just one problem: no one told top Harvard administrators—including University President Lawrence H. Summers—that this grant would legally bind Harvard to treating thousands of patients per year and overseeing drug supply and delivery in the region. With grant money and drugs frequently landing on the black markets of the countries in which Harvard would be operating, such a task could be very difficult—and not something large research universities like Harvard usually...
Harvard’s Joint Committee on Inspections (JCI), a monitoring board made up of members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and led by Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, subsequently demanded that Mass. Hall oversee the grant. The resulting five-month delay held up millions of dollars in funding even as 1,000 AIDS-infected patients were awaiting treatment. Up to 400 Nigerians on a waiting list for anti-retroviral drugs died before funding was released in July...
While experts assert that Harvard’s on-the-ground progress in these African countries continues to set new global standards for AIDS treatment delivery, administrative difficulties have dogged this grant throughout much of its 15-month history...
...initial elation inspired by the windfall for SPH quickly dissipated into anxiety once Summers’ and University Provost Steven E. Hyman’s concerns about the grant became known...