AIDS is still an issue in Africa, despite US intervention
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[url]http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/03/476601108/u-s-spent-1-4-billion-to-stop-hiv-by-promoting-abstinence-did-it-work[/url]
[QUOTE]In the past 12 years, the U.S. has spent more than $1.4 billion funding abstinence programs in Africa. They're part of a larger program — called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — aimed at stopping the spread of HIV around the world.
Many health officials consider PEPFAR a succes. It is credited with giving lifesaving HIV drugs to more than 5 million people and preventing nearly 1 million babies from getting HIV from their mothers.
But a study, published Monday in Health Affairs, finds the abstinence programs have been a failure.
When President George W. Bush proposed PEPFAR in 2003, it was an unprecedented plan. The program would give billions of dollars to test and treat people for HIV in Africa. No one had ever given this much money to fight a single disease.
Congress funded the program with bipartisan support. But one part of the plan was controversial: A third of the money going toward HIV prevention was earmarked for programs teaching abstinence before marriage and faithfulness. This included sex education classes in schools and public health announcements on billboards and the radio.[/QUOTE]
Who would have thought that asking people to not sex each other wouldn't work. Learn them to use condoms effective instead of some catholic moral that is literally endangering people's lives.
They do learn them to use condoms, and all the villagers do is laugh their asses off when they find out what it's for.
You can't vaccinate contempt.
[QUOTE=27X;50263952]The do learn them to use condoms, and all the villagers do is laugh their asses off when they find out what it's for.
You can't vaccinate contempt.[/QUOTE]
If they're going to take condoms for granted, I don't think they deserve sympathy. That's not to say all of them don't.
Don't some of these people think raping a virgin cures it?
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50264136]Don't some of these people think raping a virgin cures it?[/QUOTE]
it doesnt?
[editline]5th May 2016[/editline]
do i still have aids
[editline]5th May 2016[/editline]
are you fucking kidding me
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50264136]Don't some of these people think raping a virgin cures it?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
in malawi many men are polygamists and women are expected to take their men to bed despite knowing that they have AIDS
my prof went to africa and did a documentary on it called "bush league"
who knew that U.S intervention isn't useful?
[QUOTE=MissZoey;50264485]who knew that U.S intervention isn't useful?[/QUOTE]
An intervention by Bush none the less
[QUOTE=MissZoey;50264485]who knew that U.S intervention isn't useful?[/QUOTE]
yeah except it is useful apart from the whole teaching abstinence part but i guess it would be better for us to just not give a shit and generally stop helping people because bush
[QUOTE=MissZoey;50264485]who knew that U.S intervention isn't useful?[/QUOTE]
you mean like in WW2? Korea? Yugoslavia? The Gulf War? or Afghanistan?
I'm so tired of everyone thinking [I]all[/I] US Intervention is complete bs and hasn't done anything other than fuck things up. When it has, in more than a few cases ended hostilities.
[QUOTE=MissZoey;50264485]who knew that U.S intervention isn't useful?[/QUOTE]
Actually it's just the abstenance only education part, the other intervention tactics are working
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