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Old 05-01-2003, 03:52 PM   #15 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567
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first of all teh 15 billion is bull shit (sorry bout that)

if you look deep into the 15 billion for AIDS the president stated in his State of the Union Address, you can find that only 10% is direct Aid, the remaining 90% is funneled through US agencies, where it is only accessible to American abstinence-only groups, that campaigning against condoms, which is the most efective way to stop the spread. you cant seriusly expect people to stop haveing sex.

His plan almost compleatly ignors the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (they get $10%)


Further, the money is only for countries that do not provide Abortion services to there people, contries that do get no money

"On July 22, the administration ended support for the U.N. Population Fund, citing activities in China where the administration claimed birth control is coercive even though a State Department fact-finding mission in May found no evidence of that. Thirty-four million dollars in aid was withdrawn, leading to cancellation of programs in Africa to, among other things, fight AIDS and help pregnant women. More than 180 countries received no aid from the U.S. for actions of the International Planned Parenthood Federation's work because those countries provide access to abortion even though U.S. money is not used for those services. Thus, the words sprinkled among the applause during the State of the Union applause fest were surprising at a minimum. In the few minutes he presumed to interrupt the applause, Mr. Bush announced that AIDS was a real problem for the developing world. "

"At that meeting, the American delegation was pitted against Asian countries over, among other things, sex education and methods of birth control. The American delegation tried to win support from other nations at the conference to change language in the 1994 Cairo agreement that called for controlling population growth by improving health care and education, fighting poverty and AIDS and expanding legal rights for women. The Bush administration wanted language inserted into the international agreement that would promote "natural" family-planning methods, including abstinence. The administration objected to promoting condom use among adolescents to prevent AIDS on the theory that it encourages underage sex. Many of the things to which it was opposed were things that, if implemented would, among other things, help curtail the spread of AIDS. "




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lastly:

"If this legislation passes through Congress unchanged, poor and rural communities that have only one clinic would have to build a new one in order to separate their AIDS work from their family-planning work -- an unlikely development, given the depressed economies in the targeted African and Caribbean countries. Or they would have to shut down their family-planning clinic altogether in order to qualify for the AIDS money."

"The word in Washington is that some congressional Republicans will introduce riders to the AIDS bill in the House today. Expect one to call for removing all references to condoms."

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