Having spent six months driving across southern Africa, I became familiar with the painful though common sight of fresh graves on the outskirts of villages and townships. I also became all too familiar with how US tax dollars were being spent in Africa to combat AIDS. The Bush administration is spends millions on the ABC program (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Condoms) which is modeled on the Uganda experience. The Ugandan "success story" has since been questioned both for its actual success as well as the increasing AIDS rate in Uganda. The main thrust of this campaign is to promote abstinence, with condoms being suggested much later, almost as a last option.
In the real world, where people are dying every day, the ABC program is just more American religious right theory that toys with the lives of people in the developing world. When the cemeteries are filling up at rates like this, people need science and real world help, not religious moralizing and bogus theory. This experimentation with others is sickening, not to mention immoral. And to think that people around the world are suspicious of the Bush administration...
