Comments on: Anti-Choice Ideology Infecting HIV/AIDS Policy

By: BlackLab

BlackLab — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:38:02 +0000

Good god, I just saw it. We already know the Bush administration and Big Pharma are Best Friends Forever, but in reading about how the Bushco policy results in a) lots more folks on meds and b) the crippling of prevention, i.e, lots of new cases to put on meds, using taxpayer funds to pay for the drugs, rather than for effective prevention… let’s just say I saw a stunning symmetry.

I believe that’s what they call “synergy.”

By: Ron Low

Ron Low — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:41:15 +0000

Paragraph 44 of the house bill would legitmize the junk science supposedly linking circumcision to HIV transmission. Obviously it’s nonsense or the US wouldn’t have three times the AIDS problem uncut Europe has. In non-cutting Japan AIDS is more rare than in 95%-cut Israel.

Public health policy that claims circumcision can fight AIDS will only disempower women to insist that their partners use a condom. And why would the partners want to? They *know* they’re immune and now that 20,000 sexual nerve endings have been amputated, they’re in no mood to glove up and lose more sensation.

Most of the half-million US men who have died of AIDS were cut at birth. Circumcision does not prevent AIDS. HIS body HIS decision.

By: denelian

denelian — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:31:23 +0000

i continue to feel its a deliberate policy. almost forcing more people to contract HIV.

By: MJN

MJN — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:51:08 +0000

What’s sad is that the bill’s shortcomings aren’t being widely reported; I read the article in my newspaper the other day, and it’s being lauded as a great aid effort towards Africa – no mention at all of abstinence. If I hadn’t already known what the policy was, I would have thought that Bush was doing something right – scary.

By: KD Patrick

KD Patrick — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:18:44 +0000

I would like to add a plea for readers to consider helping women living in the U.S. affiliated Pacific region–American Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam–which suffers enormous health disparities due in part to limited Federal assistance, and in part due to the post-colonial era per capita income: for example, it is only $2,900 in the Marshall Islands, and $2,300 in the Federated States of Micronesia. For comparison, the U.S. per capita income is $46,000. Even a small donation to the GUAHAN Project (http://www.guahanproject.org/index.php)–the regional AIDS service organization–can make a huge difference for women in these small, culturally rich enclaves that could be destroyed by HIV/AIDS.