How Bush's AIDS Program is Failing Africans

The president's much-lauded international AIDS initiative has succeeded in saving lives through treatment. But its abstinence-focused prevention programs have put many more lives in jeopardy.

Abstinence-focused programs do not solve the problem.

Why, you ask.

Um, like I said earlier today, because humans are supposed to have sex.

Abstinence goes against our natural urges. Programs involving prevention would work better, but that means you have to condone the fact that people are having sex.

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