The Republican Solution for AIDS

[MrScorpio]

Every tax penny returned to meet poor and middle class needs is a penny Republicans can’t give to a millionaire, so it should come as no surprise that the Republican solution is to ignore and/or stigmatize the disease. As if this were not sufficiently shameful, the lack of preventive services in the states where Republicans have control amounts to a virtual death panel, condemning high risk populations.

An international rights organization is accusing state governments in the southern United States of a “public health failure” that has seen the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the region rise the most in the nation because of policies that are ineffective and discriminate against people with the virus.

Human Rights Watch, in a report issued Friday, said “progress in the fight against AIDS in the southern United States is undermined by state laws and policies that impose ineffective approaches and fuel stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV.”

The report says HIV is increasing in 17 southern states at the fastest rate in the nation. It documents practices in the region that HRW says have undercut progress on combating HIV, including:

- Refusal of southern states to provide comprehensive sex education in the schools

- State laws that impede access to sterile syringes

- Criminal penalties for exposing others to HIV.

http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/?p=3477

[Zoeisright]

1. Not at all surprising, from the 'Bigot Belt'.

'Bible Belt' my ass. Well, they do use the bible as a weapon.

[Drale]

2. The way republicans would really like to take care of the AIDS "problem"

would be to kill anyone who has it, which according to them is only gay people so it kills to birds with one stone in their eyes. SICK BASTARDS!