Brazil to U.S.: Keep Your Money

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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

I hate how people make everything religious.

but.. but...

The administration has a stipulation that 30% of US anti-Aids funds go through faith-based organisations, which typically support the abstinence policy.

Originally Posted by lookout

Originally Posted by lookout

in the end, i don't really give a shit about whores in brazil, or their HIV problem... except for the fact that they seem to think it is appropriate to spend my tax dollars on their problem as long as we don't make any demands for change.

Changes to a program that's already

considered a model by international health organizations

? So they can be more like us?

The report finds that infections are on the rise in the United States and Western Europe. In the US, an estimated 950 000 people are living with HIV – up from 900 000 in 2001.

We've also made trade deals that restrict other (poor) countries from producing their own generic aids meds. Doesn't that just mean that american tax payers are buying expensive drugs, from american pharmaceutical companies, for poor countries? Who benefits from this? [rhetorical]

Originally Posted by lookout

once upon a time, in America, nobody could imagine a future where smoking would be looked at as a negative. now the smokers are crying that the world is against them. i'm not saying i want to villainize whores... but it isn't that hard to take it out of the advertising,

I've never been to Brazil, do their whore ads look like this?