Posted on 02/06/2020 3:05:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The U.S. government will spend more than half a million dollars to provide residents of a tiny, poverty-stricken African nation with condoms. The money, $700,000, will help fund a National Condom Strategy launched by the Ministry of Health in Eswatini, a landlocked south African country smaller than New Jersey. Until recently Eswatini was known as Swaziland but its tyrannical ruler, King Mswati III, changed it so the country could break with its colonial past.
Estwatini is Africa’s only absolute monarchy and most of its population of about 1.4 million lives in poverty with the world’s highest rate of AIDS and HIV. King Mswati however, leads an openly posh lifestyle and has15 wives, according to an African news report that lists all their names. The king has an annual budget of $61 million, owns two private jets and several fancy cars, including a $625,000 Rolls Royce and a $500,000 Maybach 62. He is also a renowned violator of human rights who has been blasted by various international groups over the years. Just last month Eswatini’s National Commissioner of Police announced that social media critics of the king will be hunted down and arrested. Around the same time, human rights advocates were arrested for denouncing King Mswati’s oppressive, dictator-like policies.
None of this is stopping Uncle Sam from cutting a fat check for the African nation’s condom endeavor, created in 2018 to improve access to quality and affordable male and female condoms for all sexually active individuals in order to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections as well as “unintended pregnancies.” Among the key populations targeted by Eswatini’s National Condom Strategy are “men who have sex with men, sex workers, their clients, and their partners,” according to the Ministry of Health document, because they have the highest incidence of HIV...
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Wakanda’s condom program is going to cost at least $10 million.
They wont use them
I wonder how the environmentalists feel about us distributing thousands of pounds of non-biodegradable rubber that will certainly end up washing into streams, rivers, and into the ocean eventually.
We need to halt all foreign aid.
Yeah, but theirs will be infused with that magic metal that makes everything super.
Great idea and program except the King should buy the condoms ... not us.
sh!itehole country
I hope they include some bananas so they can be taught how to put the condom on...
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Just as hunting elephants has nothing to do with elephants.
I wonder how much of this money will be laundered back to DC politicians
Wow, that will be an infusion into DC politician’s pockets.
Great idea put it in all caps next time.
Maybe some exceptions...Israel gives us all their info on missile defense and spying so it’s worth it.
Now we know most others end up in dems’ and even R’s pockets.
Yeah, i think there are a few places that are fine, but for the most part stop being the world’s welfare bank.
50 billion spent in 2017 on foreign aid!!
We owe 21 trillion. At least!!!
Condone are evil
Balloon parties for the children!
Your smartphone doesn’t understand the word “condom?”
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