Kent Hill's response to Roger Bate's critique of USAID efforts to fight malaria contained a number of misleading statements and distortions of fact.

Overly zealous efforts to eliminate fraud in AIDS treatment will only waste more aid than is saved.

Congress must cut low-priority spending and wasteful programs--such as broken international aid programs--to offset the new financial burden our nation faces.

Small amounts of fraud are a small price to pay for engaging local groups and slowly ramping up AIDS treatment--any other approach is doomed to fail.

What happens when U.S.-backed dictators around the world die?

The U.S. Agency for International Development should take several steps to improve performance, or Congress should distribute its malaria budget to another agency.