Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program

[OleWally]

[quote](CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.

The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011.

“NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications,” the grant abstract states. “We propose to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene study among men unwilling to be circumcised in Orange Farm, South Africa.”

Because AIDS researchers have been unsuccessful in convincing most adult African men to undergo circumcision, the UCLA study proposes to determine whether researchers can develop an after-sex genitalia-washing regimen that they can then convince uncircumcised African men to follow.

“The aim of the proposed feasibility study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a post-coital male genital hygiene procedure, which participants will be asked to practice immediately post-coitus or at least 12 hours after,” reads the abstract.

Entitled “Community-Based HIV VCT: South Africa,” the name of the broader umbrella project, the program plans to test how well received the penis-washing regimen is among South African men.

If most of the men in the study wash their genitals after sex, are willing to do so after the study ends, and report that their partners accept the regimen, the researchers will develop another study to see if the “penile cleansing procedure” actually works to prevent HIV infections.

“If we find that men are able to practice consistent washing practices after sex, we will plan to test whether this might protect men from becoming HIV infected in a later study,” the grant says.

The study’s lead investigator Dr. Thomas J. Coates was the fourth highest-funded researcher in the country in 2002 and is currently conducting HIV research on three continents.

CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”

Coates, who was unavailable for comment, directed CNSNews.com to ask grant-related questions of his assistant, Darya Freedman, who did not respond.

The NIMH also declined to respond to CNSNews.com’s question.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75198[/url]

[Ronin]

What's next, mandatory penis inspection at school?

[darkrei9n]

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;24830984]What's next, mandatory penis inspection at school?[/QUOTE]

Wait, that wasn't mandatory?

[Encryption]

:wtc:

[Perfumly]

Is it really that hard to wash your dangus

[Dr. Fishtastic]

Buncha NIMHrods

[Boba_Fett]

So it costs 800,000$ for a group of people to go around telling people to wash themselves?

[Blackizzle]

We spend way more money on way stupider things all the time.

[TheBatman]

You're supposed to wash it?

[Athena]

What's the availability of water where they are? I mean, if there's nothing to wash it with then of course it's going to get dirty.

Raises a lot of questions about all the sex though.

[Xen Tricks]

Man that's just a great looking source, front page is hilarious.

[ZekeTwo]

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;24831192]So it costs 800,000$ for a group of people to go around telling people to wash themselves?[/QUOTE]

They did it through interpretive dance and hired an orchestra

[Used Car Salesm]

[QUOTE=Blackizzle;24831203]We spend way more money on way stupider things all the time.[/QUOTE]

Truth be told, yeah. I'd rather money be spent on something that might conceivably keep poor ignorant Africans from getting genital rot than to hand further money to the already-rich.

[Novistador]

It offends me that some people in this thread would deny the poor exploited Africans the right to clean genitals.

Their genitals got dirty making our filthy capitalist Nike sneakers and Nintendos, the least we can do is scrub their dongs when their done.

[FunkyHippo]

it's gunna take a lot more than 800 thousand to clean all their peepee.

[solidmoose]

Why don't they spend that money on some water pipes? Africa's still surrounded by water, why don't we fix the problem at it's base?

[ExplodingGuy]

[QUOTE=SolidMoos;24832176]Why don't they spend that money on some water pipes? Africa's still surrounded by water, why don't we fix the problem at it's base?[/QUOTE]
Or, you know, we could spend the economic stimulus money or something that would stimulate the economy, like, purchasing a government run automobile factory...

[Novistador]

I was always under the impression that it was just religious propaganda that circumcision served as some sort of protection from STD's.

Certainly giving your willy a little rinse 12 hours after sex isn't going to do a single to keep you from getting HIV.

[Monk37900]

They probably bought the best brand out there and rubbed there AIDS all over it.

[redonkulous]

How hard is it to get a dude to stroke his dick in the shower?

[Jund]

[QUOTE=darkrei9n;24831029]Wait, that wasn't mandatory?[/QUOTE]

Avatar fits?

[salty peanut]

:psyduck: What the shit?

[Agent_Wesker]

Instead of teaching uncircumcised men how to clean their penises, why not just force-circumcise all of them. Better yet just cut all their dicks off and it will reduce the amount of aids and starving children.

[Pretiacruento]

[QUOTE=Perfumly;24831051]Is it really that hard to wash your dangus[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=redonkulous;24832377]How hard is it to get a dude to stroke his dick in the shower?[/QUOTE]

+1. Apparently, it is... we must be geniuses or something, we know how to keep our dicks in pristine condition!

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[ZekeTwo]

[QUOTE=Agent_Wesker;24833261]Instead of teaching uncircumcised men how to clean their penises, why not just force-circumcise all of them. Better yet just cut all their dicks off and it will reduce the amount of aids and starving children.[/QUOTE]

Why don't we just glass Africa with some hydrogen bombs

[Agent_Wesker]

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24833378]+1. Apparently, it is... we must be geniuses or something, we know how to keep our dicks in pristine condition!

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Africans don't have showers.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24833411]Why don't we just glass Africa with some hydrogen bombs[/QUOTE]

That's a good idea, so good in fact that I just emailed it to Obama.

[[DJ Ria]]

..So they believe washing your dick will help prevent HIV infections?
What?

[Agent_Wesker]

[QUOTE='[DJ Ria];24835052']..So they believe washing your dick will help prevent HIV infections?
What?[/QUOTE]

It can help if the virus has not entered your body.

[Habsburg]

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;24831192]So it costs 800,000$ for a group of people to go around telling people to wash themselves?[/QUOTE]
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[Mr. Scorpio]

NIMH eh.

Crafty bastards, they're experimenting with granting sentience to people's testicles!