U.S. Global HIV Prevention Policy: Still Time to Get It Right U.S. Global HIV Prevention Policy: Still Time to Get It Right

U.S. Global HIV Prevention Policy: Still Time to Get It Right

Guttmacher Policy Review 2008, Fall, 11, 4

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Publisher Description

Over the summer, the United States strongly recommitted itself to fighting AIDS in the developing world. After months of wrangling earlier in the year, President Bush and congressional conservatives found a way to agree with congressional progressives on legislation renewing the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The former agreed to a much steeper increase in the financial promise to the effort to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria than they had wanted originally. In exchange, the latter made significant policy concessions, particularly around HIV prevention. If trading evidence-based prevention policy for more money evokes deja vu all over again, it should: This is exactly the deal that led to the creation of the original PEPFAR law in 2003. Incorporated in that law were requirements that at least one-third of all HIV prevention funds be reserved for abstinence-until-marriage programs; that nongovernmental organizations adopt a position opposing prostitution and sex trafficking in exchange for PEPFAR funding; and that faith-based organizations be given priority in receiving funding, without regard to their willingness to provide truthful information about the effectiveness of condom use in preventing HIV, if they provide any information about condoms at all.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2008
September 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11
Pages
PUBLISHER
Guttmacher Institute
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
62.4
KB

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