Uganda Disputes Condom Shortage as U.N. Envoy Blames Bush AIDS Policy - Yahoo! News: "On Monday, Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said U.S. cuts in funding for condoms and a new emphasis on promoting abstinence had contributed to Uganda's condom shortage.
''To impose a dogma-driven policy that is fundamentally flawed is doing damage to Africa,'' Lewis told a teleconference sponsored by health and human rights organizations.
Uganda had been one of a handful of countries to significantly cut its HIV infection rate, from 15 percent in 1992 to six percent by 2002. The United States is Uganda's main donor for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Now, that progress is at risk, according to CHANGE. The administration of
President George W. Bush and the office of Uganda's first lady, Janet Museveni, have emphasized abstinence and funneled money to religious groups who push it to the detriment of the other two planks of Uganda's successful anti-AIDS platform, known as ABC for ''Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms.''"
Everything this administration has its hand in, is fucked! This administration needs to abstain and abdicate from governence, NOW!
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