Religious Left

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 wh...

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-increa...

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by Tony Grew PinkNews UK Internet company Google has said that advertisements supplied by its AdSense service to websites across the country should not have included ones that claim to "cure" HIV. "We review our policies to make sure that they are consistent with local business practices and customs," a Google spokesperson explained. "Our current policy does not allow ads that proclaim to 'cure HIV' because they are misleading. "Unfortunately, these ads seem to have escaped our automated detectors but the ads will now be banned from the system."

by NIGEL HUNT The Advertiser, Sunday Mail SOUTH Australia's largest community radio station will accept two Catholic Church awards despite controversy The awards are for two programs that highlight the problems confronting ageing gay people and women with HIV. The Sunday Mail last week revealed Radio Adelaide entered the programs in the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Annual Media Citations, but despite being judged as winner and runner-up in the radio category by respected journalist Murray Nicoll, both were rejected by a church official. The decision, made without consulting senior members of the Adelaide Archdiocese, was reversed last week following inquiries by the Sunday Mail . full article