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That year the Honduran Secretary of Health began a pilot program--partly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)--to improve the welfare of children by taking care directly to their villages rather than making them travel for it. Alvarado, who had accepted a job with USAID as a childhood-nutrition consultant, argued that it was imperative that the new program include a comprehensive tutorial in food handling, hygiene and meal planning. She put together her curriculum and dispatched teams of health workers into the countryside to teach...
Undaunted, Kintaudi and the ECC approached USAID with a plan to revive the country's devastated health-care system. They received a five-year $25 million grant, disbursed through Interchurch Medical Assistance, a nongovernmental organization based in the U.S., to set up 56 health zones located throughout the nation. (An additional 17 ECC-run health zones are funded by the World Bank.) A typical health zone serves 100,000 to 150,000 people with one hospital and about 20 health clinics, generally run by nurses...
Meanwhile, another possible gap in the 9/11 report has emerged. The panel found that hijacker Khalid Almihdhar had left the U.S. from the summer of 2000 until two months before the attacks. But USAID Systems, a Florida ID firm, confirmed last week that he was issued a card--reproduced in a book last year--in New York or New Jersey exactly six years before its expiration date of Dec. 30, 2006. Kean says there was solid evidence that Almihdhar was out of the U.S. at that time but any indication to the contrary "would be important to follow...
...part of the settlement, Shleifer and Hay agreed to a two-year disbarment by USAID, prohibiting them from participating in any of the agency’s programs. But neither Shleifer nor Hay acknowledged any liability...
...pleased that we were able to find a mutually acceptable resolution with the government, and look forward to continuing our long-standing collaboration with USAID and other government agencies on a broad range of important research and related activities,” said Robert W. Iuliano, Harvard’s general counsel, who signed the settlement agreement...