Millions are suffering from an AIDS epidemic in Africa right now,
while the Bush regime has instituted “abstinence only” policies which
deny condoms and AIDS prevention while this epidemic spreads. Some have
called this policy genocidal. Check out the below articles and
statements on this. More will be coming soon.
The International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes
Against
Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration on Oct 21-22 indicted
Bush for attacks on public health with its global gag rule that
denies contraception to Africa while millions suffer in an AIDS epidemic.
Check out their website:
http://www.bushcommission.org/index.htm
Article from The Guardian (12/1) on split between the EU and US over Bush regime’s abstinence only policy in Africa:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,1654864,00.html
From ACT UP NYC:
AIDS ACTIVIST PROTEST UGANDA’S
CONDOM SHORTAGE: CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO UNLOCK THE CONDOMS AND REJECT ABSTINENCE ONLY APPROACHES
AIDS activists protest at Ugandan Mission to the United
Nations as Uganda’s
much-lauded HIV prevention program erodes into U.S.
financed abstinence-until-marriage approaches.
http://www.healthgap.org/press_releases/05/083005_HGAP_PR_Uganda_condoms_demo.html