How has anti-choice ideology affected HIV/AIDS services in developing countries?
For so many women in developing countries the only contact they have with the health system is through a reproductive health care provider. Efforts by the administration to emphasize abstinence-only sex education not only stigmatize condom users but also send a dangerous, life-threatening message. Efforts by this administration to downplay the fact that HIV/AIDS is transmitted sexually and to shift funding from prevention to treatment also endanger women’s lives. How do similar government policies affect what US teens are taught about the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and AIDS? This fiscal year the Bush administration will sink a whopping $135 million into abstinence-only sex education. Abstinence-only programs that do not cover family planning, disease prevention, and responsible decision-making skills are dangerously irresponsible and do not prevent pregnancy or disease. Ignorance harms and can even kill. The administration’s inexplicable anti-condom crusade can result in long-t
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