Bush Gives Global AIDS Fighters Ultimatum

[brettdale]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/08/national/w050921D83.DTL


Bush Gives Global AIDS Fighters Ultimatum

U.S. groups fighting AIDS overseas are being given an ultimatum by the government: Pledge your opposition to sex trafficking and prostitution or do without federal funds.


The new rule has created confusion among health groups that wonder how it will affect them, and has drawn criticism from others who say it infringes on free speech rights and could do more harm than good.

[Gay Green]

1. That megalomaniac really DOES want to take over

the entire planet. :mad:

[lvx35]

2. I'm not going to complain...yet

I can't imagine AIDS awareness people advocating for prostitution, but I want to see exactly what this means...Does it mean that treatment is to be denied to prostitutes? Does it mean birth control is to be denied to them?
The latter would confuse me, because of the statement in the article "most of them aren't there by choice". I wonder what the deal is.