733 



AID-financed staff of 501 people (health, sanitation, and administra- 

 tion). One hundred nineteen of these Avere located in Washington at 

 AID and PHS and 197 were in Vietnam. The remainder were dis- 

 tributed as follows : ^*^ 



Africa 82 



East Asia 39 



Latin America 34 



Near East and South Asia 30 



Total 185 



CONTINUING RESOURCES OF AID 



In spite of continuing reduction in funds appropriated to AID it 

 remains a sizeable organization. It had nearly 4,000 permanent posi- 

 tions in 1970 as compared with 23,266 for the entire Department of 

 State.^^" By direct-hire or interagency agreement AID employs thou- 

 sands of additional people. 



Eighty-one U.S. voluntary agencies (most of them health-related) 

 are registered with AID's Advisory Committee on Foreign Aid for the 

 purpose of receiving overseas freight payments of supplies donated by 

 numerous tj^pes of religious, regional, welfare, and national or ethnic 

 interest groups. In 1969 this freight bill was about $5,000,000.^^^ U.S. 

 Government excess property may also be shipped out under this ar- 

 rangement, as well as food and drug surpluses of industry ; these last 

 are transferred by donating the surplus to one of the registered volun- 

 tary agencies. 



Some 500 nonprofit organizations, foundations, and missionary 

 groups maintain overseas programs. In order to provide a central 

 source of information concerning these various types of assistance 

 projects, AID arranges under contract for the publishing of directo- 

 ries by the Technical Assistance Information Clearing House. This 

 idea is not unlike that recommended by the Public Health Service 

 evaluation group as a result of a study conducted in Latin America 

 in 1952. If these directories are complete and are utilized it should be 

 possible to prevent duplicate materials from piling up on sliipping 

 docks and air terminals as well as preventing technical assistance and 

 missionaries from "stTimbling over each other" in a country in need at 

 any given time. What is required, of course, are country registers: 

 records of who is giving short and long-term assistance to a country 

 and what the amount and nature of tliat assistance is. Such registers 

 do not exist, very likely because of the high cost of assembling the 

 data. 



RECAPITULATION OF AID ACTIVITIES 



In summary', AID has established unique guidelines and machinery 

 for operations in international health work. However, funds available 

 for sucli operations have been decreasing, year by year. AID still con- 

 tributes significant amounts of money to ]nultilateral organizations 

 such as the L^nited Nations Development Program, the U.N. Special 



i« Ihid., page 9. 



150 "The Budget of the United States GovernniPiit. Fiscal Year 1972, Appendix," pages 

 77 and 6S4', 



151 "xhe Foreign Assistance Program, Annual Report to Congress for FY 1909," op. cit., 

 page 7.5. 



