Netherscourge
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$1.4 billion in condoms probably would have done a whole lot more.
US spent $1.4B to stop HIV in Africa with abstinence programs. Did it work? (no)
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AuthenticM
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yes it is
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Africa's a continent, not a country.
Take some of your money and improve your brain.
Pretty much.
C'mon, this is basic geography for goodness sake.
Would you rather him say they should have used the money on our own continent?
We shouldn't use that money on the other six continents, we should use it on our own country.
What's wrong with my sentence?
GoldenEye 007
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Oh so 4.2 billion total, with 1.4 going to these abstinence programs. Whoops.
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I can see where you're coming from, but at the same time it is grating to a lot of people that she earned millions spreading a harmful message while being a hypocrite about it.
Rentahamster
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It was cumulatively $1.4 billion over the past decade ish.
$1.4 billion over 9 years from 2004 to 2013
since 2004, the overall program has spent much more. I edited the OP a bit to try to eliminate misunderstanding. Now that I read it again, I realize I didn't make it as clear as I could have.
The "misleading" part is that most of the overall PEPFAR aid program itself was not about abstinence, but rather about stuff that actually works.
The entire PEPFAR program as a whole from when it started until now has spent tens of billions of dollars. The abstinence education part of that has totaled $1.4 billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/opinion/21tutu.html (the funding for stuff that works was pretty substantial)
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/5/856.abstract?sid=fd96f17d-72c6-43b6-8b7d-de1f4d5c1365 (the funding for stuff that doesn't work was relatively small, but that's still a lot of fucking money over the years.)
Bearjewpiter
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It's almost like telling an animal not to do something that it is biologically driven to do won't deter them much if no one is looking. Shocker.
LostCaress
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So can someone change the stupid clickbait thread title to something more appropriate?
The American government has done some good work by fighting the AIDS epidemic throughout Africa, and I'm not sure why the OP feels the need to completely write the program off because some Congressmen wrote in a provision earmarking money for abstinence education. You know a large fraction on GAF doesn't actually read OPs.
The American government has done some good work by fighting the AIDS epidemic throughout Africa, and I'm not sure why the OP feels the need to completely write the program off because some Congressmen wrote in a provision earmarking money for abstinence education. You know a large fraction on GAF doesn't actually read OPs.
Heheheh
UnemployedVillain
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Yeah the title makes it sounds like that's all the US spent money on when in actuality it's a fraction (1/3) of a much larger pool of spending on other non-abstinence programs
Plinko
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If a woman is not ovulating, and neither partner already has an STD, they could bathe themselves in an Olympic sized swimming pool of their bodily fluids while fucking like rabbits until the sun sets without risk.
This is actually false, as sperm can survive inside a woman for lengthy periods after sex.
Rentahamster
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That's the title from the NPR article. I knew it sounded confusing, which is why I tried to clarify the meaning in the first few sentences of the OP.
as I said earlier, within a 3 day period (although apparently in the right conditions, sperm can survive up to 5 days. I think they basically need to be super sperm, and the woman has to be immunosuppressed for that to happen, though)
smokeandmirrors
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we don't borrow from china
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