So
we always give the guys a hard time for not wanting to slip one on, but
women have just as much responsibility to stay safe and prevent
unwanted pregnancies and according to this recent study, black women
are not holding it down and are paying the price. This article talks a
lot about down-low men that women think are purely hetero, but that
isn't the point to me. Whether a man is straight or bisexual, he can
still give you a disease that might stay forever or even kill you. Clarion Ledger: Denial infects the Delta - Study: Black women's attitudes toward safe-sex practices deadly.
For myself, every black girlfriend I have is very adamant about birth
control and condoms, so maybe its a Delta thing? I don't know.
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The program assists AIDS victims in over 120 countries, focusing mostly on 15 African countries. The writer also notes that now that it has been proven that you can reach the masses as critics said we couldn't, the program needs "to shift its emphasis from emergency relief to building the capacity of affected nations to sustain the effort against AIDS for decades." I agree.
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The
U.N. says that the work of the administration and private organizations
of getting more AIDS drugs to poor countries is working, but its still
not enough. This year the number went from 700,000 to 2 million. That's
an awesome improvement. We just need to keep it up. AIDS Drugs Reach More People, U.N. Report Says, but Not Enough - New York Times
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I
know you're sick of hearing me say this, but if you don't have Times
Select, you should. Despite its bias, the NYTimes has the best writers
and columnists probably only comparable to the Washington Post. This
article, Shackles on the AIDS Program,
talks about how although Bush's ambitious AIDS program is doing well,
government policy and posturing is screwing it up. You mean the
government is making it harder to get something done? What a surprise.
Here's
the problem. The progam covers all the various stages of the disease,
but it's focus on preventing HIV is only allowed 20% of the money sent.
Congress wanted it this way. The rest is for medicine and other things.
The even bigger problem is that, of this 20%, one-third has to go to
abstinence until marriage initiatives. "More money has been spent in
that area than on other prevention activities, including distribution
of condoms and blocking mother-to-child transmission."
The program assists AIDS victims in over 120 countries, focusing mostly on 15 African countries. The writer also notes that now that it has been proven that you can reach the masses as critics said we couldn't, the program needs "to shift its emphasis from emergency relief to building the capacity of affected nations to sustain the effort against AIDS for decades." I agree.
