HRW also warned that teaching safe and effective condom use may disappear in Uganda.
A report on Uganda's AIDS situation published late last year indicates that the failures of abstinence education in that country may have already taken a deadly toll. Contrary to claims made by the Ugandan government and the Bush administration, the declining AIDS infection rate in Uganda may be due not to the effectiveness of abstinence programs but to "the deaths of previously infected people ... over the past decade," reports the Washington Post.
Because abstinence programs prevent access to scientifically sound knowledge about condom use as an effective preventative measure against AIDS, these programs simply have failed to achieve their goal of reducing AIDS infection rates.
--Joel Wendland is managing editor of Political Affairs and will be door-knocking and phone-banking this fall to bring down the corrupt Republican Congress.
A report on Uganda's AIDS situation published late last year indicates that the failures of abstinence education in that country may have already taken a deadly toll. Contrary to claims made by the Ugandan government and the Bush administration, the declining AIDS infection rate in Uganda may be due not to the effectiveness of abstinence programs but to "the deaths of previously infected people ... over the past decade," reports the Washington Post.
Because abstinence programs prevent access to scientifically sound knowledge about condom use as an effective preventative measure against AIDS, these programs simply have failed to achieve their goal of reducing AIDS infection rates.
--Joel Wendland is managing editor of Political Affairs and will be door-knocking and phone-banking this fall to bring down the corrupt Republican Congress.
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