President Obama Insults Us With His HIV/AIDS Offering

After much fanfare over the last week President Obama has revealed his new HIV/AIDS strategy. In it he proposes to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections by 25 percent within five years.

President Obama we are talking about human lives! I find it odd you want to completely remove oil emissions in the gulf yet you are only concerned with a 25% reduction in HIV infections.

The report does not propose a major increase in federal spending. Less than three years ago there was no waiting list for life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs to people with HIV or AIDS who cannot afford them. Today nearly 1,800 have been relegated to rapidly expanding waiting lists. [article]

President Obama also took the opportunity to compliment President George W. Bush "who made progress against AIDS in Africa by setting clear goals and holding people accountable".

President Obama, you insult our intelligence with such lies.

President George W. Bush was big on abstinence only policy which caused the infection rate to double in Africa. [article]

It wasn’t until they noticed the extreme increase of new infections and death rate, caused by abstinence only policies, that they made a change. [article]

Although there were previously many examples regarding the failure of abstinence only policies, religious influences prevailed. [article]

And of course, we couldn’t leave out President Obama’s buddy Rick Warren’s involvement. [article]

President Obama, please don’t insult us or try to pretend like you’re helping when in fact you aren’t doing everything you can. Once again you have proven your definition of a ‘fierce advocate’ is much different then most.


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A Sad Day in Uganda

It’s a shame a whole country, in this day and time, cannot see the track record of religious involvement in HIV/AIDS treatment. Of course we can all see what religious involvement in Uganda has done (kill-the-gays).

It has been proven over and over again that safe-sex-education trumps abstinence-only-education for curbing the spread of sexually transmitted disease. No if’s, and’s or but’s, abstinence-only-education causes more death, more dollars, more suffering and more risk.

Prior to religion and Bush becoming involved in abstinence-only-education the rate of new infections in Africa had dropped drastically.

Once abstinence-only-education took over new infection rate started to rise.

Of course, the kill-the-gays folks in Uganda have been holding out on a final decision due to the all-mighty-dollar. We all knew this.

Today in the news we hear about the USA freezing HIV spending in Africa! (article)

One of the reasons being: “the US cannot continue treating an ever-increasing number of patients and that unless new infections are reduced Ugandans will always be faced with drug shortages”.

Even a PEPFAR official stated “We have all lost momentum on the prevention front and we’re paying for it now in the form of rising prevalence".

The good news is, with Obama, the abstinence-only-education is going to take a back seat.

The sad part is the question: How many died due to the application of religion rather than sound scientific data?

Every single person who participates in abstinence-only-education is complicit to murder.

Back to the topic at hand. Now that the cat’s out of the bag about the money I wonder if they will suddenly reach a decision about the kill-the-gays bill? Or is there still money in the wings? $959 million sounds like an awful lot of money but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other programs that funnel even more funds to that area.

When preachers start suggesting/making laws you no longer have a democracy. You have become a theocracy.

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