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AIDS successes (By George W. Bush)
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$1.4 billion of success money since 2004 for government institution workers
“Abstinence promotion” policies the United States has funded for more than a decade as part of an effort to slow the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are largely ineffective, a new evaluation of the program concludes.
The U.S. has spent more than $1.4 billion since 2004 telling young people in Africa to abstain from sex before marriage and then commit to a single partner. That funding didn’t influence the number of sex partners people had, the age at which they started having sex, or teen pregnancy rates, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Health Affairs by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine. The abstinence policies are a controversial part of former President George W. Bush’s ambitious program to fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, around the globe, and they have continued under President Obama. The broader effort, known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, is widely considered a global health success. It has delivered life-saving HIV medicines to millions of people, largely in poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa, at a cost of more than $50 billion since 2004. The program "reset the world's expectations for what can be accomplished with ambitious goals, ample funding, and humanitarian commitment to a public health crisis,” according to a 2013 evaluation by the Institute of Medicine. From the start, though, Pepfar was subject to certain ideological restrictions. The money couldn’t go to needle exchanges or to organizations that didn’t have policies explicitly opposing prostitution. Of Pepfar's prevention funding, the law required at least a third to go to programs focused on abstinence and faithfulness. That restriction was loosened in 2008, but the U.S. has continued to devote tens of millions of dollars a year to such programs. The policy clashed with the reality of the HIV epidemic on the ground in Africa. For example, the 2013 Institute of Medicine report noted the “inherent mismatch between an abstinence/be faithful approach and programs for individuals engaged in sex work,” who are an important target for HIV prevention efforts. The Health Affairs report adds that abstinence promotion may be funded “at the opportunity cost of other, potentially more effective, prevention services,” such as promoting condoms or treatment to prevent HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus on to newborns. The study has some limits. It didn’t compare individual people who had received abstinence education with those who had not, and researchers may not have been able to control for all the differences between the countries they compared. A spokeswoman for Pepfar didn’t respond to questions about current funding for abstinence programs or whether Pepfar plans to continue them. In an e-mailed statement, Pepfar said it has “continually evolved its approach,” based on the latest evidence. Additional evaluations of abstinence policies have found little evidence that they work. An analysis by ----- snip ----- read full article at source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...s-effort-shows
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$1.4bn Wasted on African anti-HIV Program
A $1.4 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded anti-AIDS campaign to teach Africans sexual responsibility has failed completely and the money has been wasted, it has emerged.
The campaign forms part of the George W. Bush-created U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). According to a new report in the Scientific American, the latest waste of money “was supposed to prevent the spread of HIV—but it didn’t work.” The Scientific American report revealed that a “rigorous comparison of national data from countries that received abstinence funding” from PEPFAR with those that got none of the funding, showed no difference in the age of first sexual experience, the number of sexual partners, or teenage pregnancies—all aspects of behaviors which are linked to a higher risk of becoming infected with HIV. PEPFAR was funded by Congress with bipartisan support solely to fight AIDS in Africa. It included billions to distribute anti-retroviral drugs, but one third of the money went to “HIV prevention programs” aimed at teaching sexual responsibility. This included sex education classes in schools and public health announcements on billboards and the radio. According to the PEPFAR website, the organization operates in the following African states: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. According to the most recent HIV overview published by UK Charity Avert, Sub-Saharan Africa has the most serious HIV and AIDS epidemic in the world. In 2013, an estimated 24.7 million Africans were living with HIV, accounting for 71 percent of the global total. In the same year, there were an estimated 1.5 million new HIV infections and 1.1 million AIDS-related deaths. Southern Africa is the worst affected region and is widely regarded as the epicenter of the global HIV epidemic. Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence of any country worldwide (27.4 percent) while South Africa has the largest epidemic of any country—5.9 million people are living with HIV. In Africa, AIDS is primarily a heterosexual disease, in contrast to the West where it is primarily a homosexual disease. The reason for this is because HIV is, like any sexually transmitted disease (STD), the product of sexual promiscuity, rather than any particular sex act. In other words, the higher the degree of sexual promiscuity—that is, the higher the number of different sex partners—the greater the chance of catching an STD, including AIDS. HIV thus disproportionately affects those groups who are most sexually promiscuous—or sexually irresponsible—homosexuals and Africans. http://newobserveronline.com/1-4bn-w...i-hiv-program/
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It's elementary my dear captain fucking obvious
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'In Africa, AIDS is primarily a heterosexual disease, in contrast to the West where it is primarily a homosexual disease. The reason for this is because HIV is, like any sexually transmitted disease (STD), the product of sexual promiscuity, rather than any particular sex act. In other words, the higher the degree of sexual promiscuity—that is, the higher the number of different sex partners—the greater the chance of catching an STD, including AIDS. HIV thus disproportionately affects those groups who are most sexually promiscuous—or sexually irresponsible—homosexuals and Africans.' WELL. NO. SHIT. SHERLOCK. Wasn't this established sometime in the late 80s-early 90s? Damn. Talk about DUH... |
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