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U.S. Anti-AIDS Abstinence Efforts in Africa Fail to Prevent HIV
Scientific American ^ | May 6, 2016 | Christine Gorman

Posted on 12/17/2016 4:14:20 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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Research the ‘faith based’ refugee resettlement programs. They are making a fortune.

For the initial intake an first year it is at least $30k per head on the South of the border folks. Possibly up to $62K on the Syrians and Somalians when they handle the whole process.

These are profit making groups with ‘church leaders’ pulling down six figure incomes with expense accounts. Maybe that’s why there seems to be less televangelism, the big money is refugees.


21 posted on 12/17/2016 5:28:01 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

FAILURE TO ADHERE TO US Abstenence Efforts in Africa Fails to Prevent HIV


22 posted on 12/17/2016 5:29:45 AM PST by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Would it make sense to spend billions to “teach” monkeys to stop having random sex? Wouldn’t work. That’s what monkeys do.


23 posted on 12/17/2016 5:37:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Jim Noble

Uganda is special because their president supported abstinence. The article is from 2006 and I hope they have stayed the course.

The other African leaders are claiming that taking a shower will wash disease away and raping a virgin will be the cure for AIDS. That led to an epidemic of child and baby raping.


24 posted on 12/17/2016 5:39:27 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Jim Noble

This NYT article from 2012 criticizes Uganda’s increase in AIDS.

But it had only increased from 6.4% to 7.2%. Not good, but that’s a fraction of the AIDS reported in the rest of the African nations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/world/africa/in-uganda-an-aids-success-story-comes-undone.html


25 posted on 12/17/2016 5:46:34 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Wow! I knew they were pulling some big dollars but not that much per head.

I know Catholic Charities pulls in billions of our tax dollars per year. Other faith based groups pull in a lot of money too.

And that is just the first year cost. After they’re signed up for welfare and every other government assistance program, there is no telling how much they cost tax payers. And that is just the first generation of them. Their children learn how to live off the tax payers money too.


26 posted on 12/17/2016 5:49:14 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Over the past 15 years the U.S. has spent $1.4 billion promoting abstinence before marriage as a way of preventing HIV in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Homosexuals in Africa aren't getting married and aren't gonna wait.

27 posted on 12/17/2016 5:52:10 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Ebola can also be sexually transmitted even after the symptoms have cleared up and the sufferer is labeled “clear”.


28 posted on 12/17/2016 5:53:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Vehmgericht
For a few trillion more dollars we can have a program to teach them to brush after every meal and wash behind their ears. After all it’s our responsibility. We have to improve the world.

We are on the hook for trillions of dollars but cannot tell them what to do or how to use that money. It would be colonial (Western imperialism) and that's "bad". Better to support Marxist and Islamic imperialism in "Mother Africa". Military juntas are the Left's idea of fighting off Western imperialism.

29 posted on 12/17/2016 5:55:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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Zika, Ebola, et al but “not AIDS” we are told.


30 posted on 12/17/2016 5:56:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Jim Noble

AIDS activists today are fighting to eradicate laws that require AIDS sufferers to notify their sexual partners (and potential partners) because “AIDS Pride” and all that.

They aren’t about human rights, consensual sex (informed consent), or saving lives.


31 posted on 12/17/2016 6:00:01 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The headline is misleading...the abstinence program was 100% successful for those who participated correctly...


32 posted on 12/17/2016 6:25:39 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: rb22982

As long as they believe that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS you can’t fix the issue.

Even here in the US the Buttercups are not using condoms as frequently because the know the drugs will lower the HIV virus where it is not detectable in the blood. http://nypost.com/2016/11/02/millennials-arent-wearing-condoms-anymore/


33 posted on 12/17/2016 6:31:50 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Abstinence in Africa? Yeah, that works well.


34 posted on 12/17/2016 6:39:34 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Wpin

That’s it in a nutshell but only a small few will utter those words. As far as we know now, AIDS is 100% behavioral. Stop the behavior, stop the transmission.


35 posted on 12/17/2016 7:19:52 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1362134/South-African-men-rape-babies-as-cure-for-Aids.html

No amount of money sent to Africa is going to help people this mentally deficient.

36 posted on 12/17/2016 7:37:01 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) We won! Ok, Donald, let's ROLL!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

They failed to mention Fidel Castro’s program of putting all the Cuban soldiers who had contracted AIDS while fighting in Angola into quarentine (concentration) camps.


37 posted on 12/17/2016 8:03:17 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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Without being Christ-centered, it would be useless. There would be no answer to the question, “why not?”

"So you don't get AIDS."

38 posted on 12/17/2016 8:13:54 AM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: fso301
So do lack of impulse control, low IQs, superstitions regarding rampant sex, sex as entertainment, women using sand, bleach and chalk as measures to give the feel of a "tighter sensation" particularly good at adding blood to the mix---the list goes on and on--mosquitoes aint the problem.
39 posted on 12/17/2016 8:36:56 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

How can anyone teach anything to people who believe you cure AIDS by raping infants and wearing the body parts of albinos brings good luck?


40 posted on 12/17/2016 9:55:03 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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