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...letter sent last August and obtained by The Crimson, Bloom outlined for Kanki the new hierarchy of the PEPFAR project, including the executive director. Kanki and other project administrators were also prohibited from contacting the government and local partners about the without first consulting the executive director...
...February 2004, the White House awarded a team led by Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Phyllis Kanki $107 million to fight AIDS in Africa as part of the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the government program entrusted with disbursing $15 billion to help eradicate AIDS in Africa. The grant commits Harvard to treating thousands of patients a year with anti-viral drugs and implementing clinical drug delivery mechanisms in three African countries—Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania...
Last year, the central administration attempted to force Kanki to co-manage the grant with Dr. Bruce D. Walker, a Harvard researcher at Mass. General Hospital who had also applied for a PEPFAR grant, according to one SPH professor...
Hyman could not be reached over the weekend because he was in South Africa and Botswana meeting with government officials and Harvard researchers working on the PEPFAR project...
...some ways it is a bit deceptive because they don’t go after the brunt of the disease burden,” Bansal said. Bansal also noted skyrocketing AIDS rates in countries that PEPFAR does not work in such as China, Russia and India...