Posted on 08/29/2005 12:08:03 PM PDT by edcoil
By Andrew Quinn
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The U.S. government's emphasis on abstinence-only programs to prevent AIDS is hobbling Africa's battle against the pandemic by downplaying the role of condoms, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said fundamentalist Christian ideology was driving Washington's AIDS assistance program known as PEPFAR with disastrous results, including condom shortages in Uganda.
The Bush administration favors prevention programs that focus on abstinence rather than condom use and has more than doubled funding for U.S. abstinence-only programmes over the past five years.
As part of President George W. Bush's global AIDS plan, the U.S. government has already budgeted about $8 million this year for abstinence-only projects in Uganda, human rights groups say.
"There is no question in my mind that the condom crisis in Uganda is being driven and exacerbated by PEPFAR and by the extreme policies that the administration in the U.S. is now pursuing in the emphasis on abstinence," Lewis told journalists on a teleconference.
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This just in, abstinence works every time it's tried.
Why do we give a $hit about Africa again?
Anybody?
At all?
Since abstenence would lead to fewer infections and decrease the likelihood of an outbreak into the normal community in this country it frustrates the goal of the deviants to have that long predicted breakout.
OK, let me get this straight. Don't talk about abstinence, it makes AIDS worse because ... ? How does it go again?? Oh, I see, up is down. There, that's better.
Sorry, I thought this was about AIDS. Didn't realize Steve was a commercial rep for condoms.
Just a note to those in Africa with AIDS – having sex with a virgin will not cure AIDS.
But UN sexocrats have been reluctant to push this approach on other African countries, preferring their standard condom drivel. Probably worried the ABC campaign might shut down the UN brothels and rape camps in Congo.
And that's in a developed country. I heard a BBC/Africa call-in show on SW. There are cultural parts of Africa
that use dry "herbs" as a "lubricant", for want of the correct term. Most condoms, particularly UN condoms, won't hold
up to that type of use.
probably plenty, along with hepatitis from bad blood...
So, you feel sorry for the people of Africa? For this reason we need to spend billions in tax dollars there? To do what, exactly? What dos it gain our country?
You feel sorry for them, send them your money. Leave other people's money alone.
I never said we need to send them all our money which
is why the UN hates the abstinence program...
really how money does it cost not have sex..
when you as a UN official can skim $$ of the top
of donations that are supposedly used to buy
condoms and for "education" programs.
I can feel sorry for the people of those countries
without feeling the need to feed into the problems
that have caused their current situation
Ladies and gentlemen, you can stop calling in. We have a winner! 
Abstinence only not only works, it cuts off the endless supply of US money that can be drained off by petty African dictators. It's a twofer. Let's spend the money cleaning up the water supply in Africa - that'll save millions of innocent African lives. ( Not that I object to spending most of our medical money in Africa on trying to say the permissive,the hookers, and the drug addicted.)
The problem with peddling abstinence is that it's hard to make money off it. Unlike the UN way, there is not much graft, less need for bureaucratic staffing, no fewer underage girls (and boys) being passed around to play with.
Ladies and gentlemen, you can stop calling in. We have a winner!
Shhhh, we can't cloud the issue with the truth! You'll slow the UN money schemes. We all know that only cheaply made condoms such as those distributed by the UN will stop the spread of AIDS/HIV and blood donors screenings, with new needles for each one, will only cost unnecessary dollars.
"The U.S. government's emphasis on abstinence-only programs to prevent AIDS is hobbling Africa's battle against the pandemic"
Maybe it's time African nations take care of themselves. They act like babies who can't live without some form of welfare.
You're forgetting companies that make condoms lose money as well.
Steve will have to answer on his own, but condoms have an 5 to 20% failure rate - Have sex 20 times, and odds are you're exposed.
The good thing about condoms is that it keeps Africans getting AIDS and keep the UN getting money to "service" them.
AIDS is a full employment act for UN graft, social workers, and other assorted liberal do-gooders. Well, do-gooders on our dime. They don't "do good" for free. It's a job. And they need misery to keep that job going.
The misery of the African people, and the horrors of this disease have lined the pockets of the corrupt for a long time. It's time for a more humane, verifiable, and rational approach.
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