Posted on 07/18/2014 12:51:18 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government reviewed on Tuesday the progress of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in the past four years, and announced new funding to fight the scourge.
In a report released by the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services will invest 11 million dollars in funding to enhance its Community Health Centers' HIV efforts in communities highly impacted by HIV, especially among racial and ethnic minorities.
"This initiative, funded through the Affordable Care Act and the Secretary's Minority AIDS Initiative Fund, aims to build sustainable partnerships between public health and health centers to help achieve the goals of the Strategy," it said.
Meanwhile, U.S. Justice Department released a Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV-specific Criminal Laws to align with Scientifically Supported Factors.
"This guide is intended to share best practices for aligning criminal law with the public health goal of reducing HIV-related stigma," the report said.
In addition, the government will expand investment in research to address gaps and opportunities in the HIV Care Continuum, including investigations of the effectiveness of methods to identify HIV-infected people earlier and to link them to care.
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Maybe fight homosexuality...it’s the only thing that will wipe this out.
11 million? That must be a misprint.
Fight it? The U.S. promotes it around the world. Gay pride flags flying over U.S. embassies.
U.S. Promotes Homosexuality Across the Globe, Obama Signs Executive Order for LGBT Rights, National Guard Not Welcome at LGBT Event
U.S. thrusts ‘gay’ agenda upon world
(Source: WND) - Barack Obama has integrated promotions of homosexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices into his policy and practice since his election, successfully promoting the “gay” lifestyle in the U.S. military and forbidding the enforcement of the federal law called the Defense of Marriage Act that supported traditional marriage.
The extent of the reach of his actions perhaps was epitomized by last week’s announcement that the U.S. Embassy in Israel was flying a rainbow flag – representing homosexual activism – along with Old Glory.
http://www.worldeventsandthebible.com/2014/06/us-promotes-homosexuality-across-globe.html
And we taxpayers pay for it.
But “throws down the toilet” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Complete waste of money.
Tell the faggots to “just say no” ... to anal sodomy.
Is HIV a racial disorder? Does it seek out black people and Mexicans to infect? That is one racist virus.
All they need to do is pass a law that makes it a hate crime for a virus to attack racial and ethnic minorities. Problem solved.
Yep, stop putting it where it doesn’t belong.
HIV is the fulfillment of scripture:
“men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error”
Funny. That is a rounder error for the amount ‘we’ have ‘invested’ in Africa concerning AIDS.
Why is the Justice Department and Eric holder involved. It is a disease, not a criminal matter. The only criminality involved are those AIDS infected that purposely infect others.
Oh, I get it. Somehow a hate crime will be attached to people in some way.
George W. Bush’s greatest legacy — his battle against AIDS
This is a moment for all Americans to be proud of the best thing George W. Bush did as president: launching an initiative to combat AIDS in Africa that has saved millions of lives.
All week, more than 20,000 delegates from around the world have been attending the 19th International AIDS Conference here in Washington. They look like any other group of conventioneers, laden with satchels and garlanded with name tags. But some of these men and women would be dead if not for Bush’s foresight and compassion.
Those are not words I frequently use to describe Bush or his presidency. But credit and praise must be given where they are due, and Bush’s accomplishment — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR — deserves accolades. It is a reminder that the United States can still be both great and good.
When the Bush administration inaugurated the program in 2003, fewer than 50,000 HIV-infected people on the African continent were receiving the antiretroviral drugs that keep the virus in check and halt the progression toward full-blown AIDS. By the time Bush left office, the number had increased to nearly 2 million. Today, the United States is directly supporting antiretroviral treatment for more than 4 million men, women and children worldwide, primarily in Africa.
This is an amazing accomplishment, especially because it wasn’t supposed to be possible.
Before PEPFAR, the conventional wisdom was that the drug-treatment regimens that were saving lives in developed countries would not work in Africa. Poor, uneducated people in communities lacking even the most basic infrastructure could not be expected to take the right pill at the right time every day. When the drugs are taken haphazardly, the virus mutates and becomes resistant. Therefore, this reasoning went, trying to administer antiretroviral treatment in poor African countries might actually be worse than doing nothing at all.
The Bush administration rejected these arguments, which turned out to be categorically wrong.
Africans are every bit as diligent about taking their HIV medications as are Americans or other Westerners. While there has been a “modest, contained and not alarming” rise in resistance to one class of drugs, according to a World Health Organization researcher who presented a study at this week’s AIDS conference, scientists no longer envision a nightmare scenario in which drug-resistant strains of the virus run rampant.
According to a survey by the charity Doctors Without Borders, 11 African countries — including some of the hardest-hit by the epidemic — are providing antiretroviral drug treatment to well over half of their citizens infected with HIV. Treatment not only extends the patient’s life but also decreases the likelihood that he or she will pass the virus to an uninfected person. The end of the AIDS epidemic is not yet in sight. But it is no longer unimaginable.
Bush’s initial multibillion-dollar commitment to PEPFAR was not really justifiable on grounds of national security, except perhaps in the broadest possible sense. The administration was motivated instead by altruism. It was the right thing to do.
So far, the United States has spent about $46 billion through the program. President Obama has been sharply criticized for proposing a cut of nearly 12 percent in PEPFAR funding for the 2013 fiscal year. Administration officials say they are actually just shifting money to complementary programs and that overall HIV/AIDS funding will rise to an all-time high. Advocates for the PEPFAR program argue that any way you look at it, fewer dollars will ultimately mean fewer people receiving lifesaving drugs — and, potentially, more new infections.
The Obama administration has a point when it complains that, at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling, it is only reasonable to expect other wealthy countries to bear more of the cost of providing antiretroviral treatment in Africa. Administration officials also have a point when they note that, under Bush, the biennial international AIDS conference could not even have been held in Washington — because HIV-positive individuals were denied visas to enter the country. Obama ended this discriminatory policy during his first year in office.
But if Africa is gaining ground against AIDS, history will note that it was Bush, more than any other individual, who turned the tide. The man who called himself the Decider will be held accountable for a host of calamitous decisions. But for opening his heart to Africa, he deserves nothing but gratitude and praise.
There you have it. AIDS is caused by insufficient government funding.
Bump!
Ah but that would be logical.
My daughter has been to Uganda three times. In fact, she is on her way home from there now. She tells me they love Bush there.
..behavior related...don’t want it? Don’t do it.
there were several passengers heading to an AIDS related conference on the Malaysian flight that was shot down yesterday.
There were around 100 of then weren’t there?
this for 2% of the population who can’t control their sexual urges or the aggressive urge to infect heterosexuals
this for yet another disease they really don’t want to cure because it’s too profitable not to
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