Reply #39: Maybe the mother wouldn't have AIDS had condoms been ... [View All]

[gulliver]

... promoted more. By trying to put a compassionate face on Bush Administration incompetence and religious fanaticism in dealing with AIDS, Laura is helping to kill the people who "moved" her.

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Bush's plan calls for an "ABC" approach to HIV prevention -- which stands for abstinence, "be faithful" and condom use -- but the administration is stressing the "A." In its first year, PEPFAR spent more than half of the $92 million earmarked to prevent sexual transmission on promoting abstinence programs. Studies show that such programs actually increase risk by discouraging contraceptive use. What's more, focusing on abstinence and monogamy ignores the reality facing young women and girls in Africa and other impoverished regions, who are often infected by wandering husbands or forced to have sex in exchange for food or shelter. Among fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa, studies show, more than three times as many young women are infected with HIV as young men.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7371950?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=1121626804861&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1059