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Monday, March 17, 2003USAID is obviously worried since it will be responsible for distributing much of President Bush's proposed $15 billion five-year initiative to combat AIDS in Africa. There are more than 28 million people in Africa with HIV, and USAID has already spent $2.3 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money in AIDS prevention and treatment since 1986, much of it on condoms, including over $25 million on condoms last year alone. Medical infrastructure - or, more precisely, a lack thereof - has always been a major cause of the spreading of AIDS and other diseases. It appears that combating this failing, by providing doctors and nurses competent in providing injections, and clean syringes and needles for those injections, may be the best way to help reduce new AIDS cases in Africa. If the source of African AIDS really is dirty needles, then lets hope this Western aid money is spent where it needs to be to combat the disease. It certainly would be a lot easier. posted by Sydney on 3/17/2003 08:12:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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