U.S. Focus on Abstinence Weakens AIDS Fight, Agency Finds

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U.S. Focus on Abstinence Weakens AIDS Fight, Agency Finds
By CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: April 5, 2006

Insistence by Republican Congressional leaders that American money to fight the spread of AIDS globally be used to emphasize abstinence and fidelity is undercutting comprehensive and widely accepted aid models, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Tuesday.

The report by the G.A.O., an investigative arm of Congress, examines the effect of a mandate from Congress that at least a third of United States money to prevent the spread of AIDS worldwide be devoted to sexual abstinence and fidelity programs.

It found that the provision had limited the reach of broader strategies to fight AIDS that include the use of condoms — a conclusion strongly contested by a senior Bush administration official.

The report also said the requirement had meant that officials in some countries have had to reduce spending on programs to prevent the transmission of H.I.V. from women to their newborn babies, as well as other prevention strategies.

"It is hampering their ability to implement key elements of the widely accepted model of H.I.V./AIDS prevention — the ABC approach," said David Gootnick, the main author of the report. ABC stands for abstain, be faithful or use condoms.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/world/africa/05aids.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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1. I am Jack's Total Absence of Surprise.

Well, Duh.

Why *DO* the RW keep coming up with the opposite of what actually works? Do they have some sort of weird personal image issues? Do they feel embarassed about their stubby, vestigial intellects and so overcompensate by simplifying everything as much as possible and screaming their "solutions" as loud as possible to make themselves *feel* equal to those of us who prefer to treat reality with some respect, reflection and the careful application of patient efforts?

Yes.

Useless. Useless. FUCKERS.

All they do is SPOIL everything.