How George Bush & Conservative Politics Hurt The Fight Vs. AIDS In Africa

2:57 am EST December 16th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

Yet again, it is ideology versus common sense and the Bushies favoring ideology.

Improving birth control availability in Africa, where usage rates are the lowest in the world, could prevent tens of thousands of more infections more reliably and less expensively than antiretroviral drugs, Cates said. Surveys among women who know they have HIV show most do not want to become pregnant again because they fear infecting their babies and leaving even healthy offspring as orphans.

Yet as research has mounted about the importance of contraception in controlling pediatric HIV, U.S. and other international funding for birth control programs has declined. The budget President Bush has proposed for this year is less than one-third the amount spent in 1995, when adjusted for inflation, according to statistics compiled by Washington-based Population Action International, which lobbies for better family planning programs worldwide.

Just like the idiotic position to favor abstinence only programs that don’t work over comprehensive sex education, conservative politics leads to more ruined families, increased disease, and just overall bad policy.