[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Actually it looks like the initial 5 year cost of the entire program was 18.8 -Billion Dollars.

This is considered by many to be George W. Bush's greatest legacy.

[CincyRichieRich]

Without being Christ-centered, it would be useless. There would be no answer to the question, “why not?”

Billy Graham and Samaritans Purse and Convoy of Hope likely were more successful.

[fso301]

Mosquitoes transmit all manner of disease.

[rb22982]

Better solution: Stopping sending aid money to Africa, period, regardless of the reason. We’ve spent trillions in the last 60 years and for what?

[45semi]

"So why did PEPFAR spend so much money on abstinence programs?
That was Congress’s idea. Responding to pressure from religious conservatives"

No, that's 'you have to start somewhere' info.
They have to learn that even though screwing everything with a pulse is 'they culcher',
keeping it zipped is literally going to save their life...

[Cowboy Bob]

Wow. Just think if that money had been spent on Americans...or better yet, not taken from the taxpaying citizens.

[deadrock]

Livingstone and the/his three 'c's were, and still are today, a complete failure.

And who will save our white brothers and sisters in South Africa?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Of course, a certain foundation’s giving out watered down HIV drugs certainly didn’t help either.

[Jim Noble]

The linked article is false in almost every detail.

In 1990, AIDS was prevalent in Uganda, with up to 25% of pregnant women infected, and was almost unheard of in South Africa.

An abstinence program started and supported by President Museveni brought about a dramatic decline in new HIV infections, even without widespread antiretroviral therapy.

Meanwhile, South Africa was invaded by "safe sex" promoting NGOs from the US, Canada, and Western Europe. When I was there in 2000, there were sex-positive messages in your face everywhere I went.

AIDS in SA exploded after 1990, and it is now one of the most heavily infected places on Earth.

Museveni was booed off the stage as he attempted to deliver an address at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006. AIDS activists hate and work to suppress abstinence programs, because they contradict their prime underlying message of radical sexual freedom.

[Socon-Econ]

Count on the left to reject any solution to a problem that involves self control. Where it is practiced, abstinence before marriage eliminates sexually transmitted diseases. No need to spend any government money — our ancestors practiced abstinence without spending anything, and the Muslims do likewise with fellow Muslims today.

[Principled]

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

[I want the USA back]

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

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[Wpin]

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

[Old Yeller]

Abstinence in Africa? Yeah, that works well.

[patriot08]

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.

[VanShuyten]

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.

[Organic Panic]

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?

[antidisestablishment]

Seems to me a little basic math would infer that all the money was wasted and that 2/3 of it went to “traditional” liberal sex education including spreading the deadly myth of prophylactics. So the majority of the failure lies with liberal policy, yet the lead is abstinence programs fail. More fake news from the propaganda organs...

[SaraJohnson]

Why is our government bothering with Africans’ sex lives when they don’t want to listen? If they want to kill themselves with AIDS, back off.