Smirk and his condom law = chaos and genocide

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http://www.democrats.com/

Lack of Contraceptives in Africa - Thanks to Bush -- Has Lead to Catastrophe

Canada.com "10 billion condoms were required this year in the developing world -- but only 2.5 billion were available. Other contraceptives are also as rare as gold. Rural women walk for many hours to distant clinics and dispensaries, only to be turned away because the facilities don't have Norplant or birth control pills. Countries such as Kenya... have been devastated by a global contraceptive shortage. A large part of the crisis can be laid at Bush's insane 'abstinence only' policy. " Last month, the UN Population Fund predicted the acute shortage of family planning counselling and contraceptives in developing countries will cause a population explosion. "We are facing a disaster," says David Adriance, who works with some of the world's poorest women. "We have the largest cohort of young people that the world has ever known. These kids are hitting reproductive age and we have nothing in place for them. No sex education. No contraception. Few services."


http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=c39a1859-f7e3-4123-baed-2968b89e014b

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Already, there are more young people on the planet than any time in history. The latest figures show that half of the world's 6.4 billion people are under 25, while 20 per cent are aged 10 to 19.

"We are facing a disaster," says David Adriance, a Nairobi-based health care worker with EngenderHealth, a U.S.-based organization that provides reproductive health care services for the world's poorest women. "We have the largest cohort of young people that the world has ever known. These kids are hitting reproductive age and we have nothing in place for them. No sex education. No contraception. Few services."

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"Most of the African countries are out of stock. Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe. It's widespread. Our clinic network is struggling," complains Patricia Hindmarsh, of Marie Stopes International, a London-based international family planning organization. "There is good information that condoms are rotting in storage and birth-control medicines are out of date."
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