Corruption isn't a natural disaster,

Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Government leaders have to address corruption so that aid is freed up for its intended purpose.

Corruption eats away at the public's trust in the medical community. People have a right to expect that the drugs they depend on are real. They have a right to think that doctors place a patient's interests above profits. And most of all, they have a right to believe that the health care industry is there to cure, not to kill.

There have clearly been serious questions raised about some of the contracts that were awarded in the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq,