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.
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.
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
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.
The exact same thing can be said for a different group:
"ABORTION activists hate and work to suppress abstinence programs, because they contradict their prime underlying message of radical sexual freedom."