Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:10:32 GMT
No more sex for American youths.
AlterNetAlterNet: EnviroHealth: Condom Wars
Lethal new regulations from President Bush's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, quietly issued with no fanfare last week, complete the right-wing Republicans' goal of gutting HIV-prevention education in the United States. In place of effective, disease-preventing safe-sex education, little will soon remain except failed programs that denounce condom use, while teaching abstinence as the only way to prevent the spread of AIDS. And those abstinence-only programs, researchers say, actually increase the risk of contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Reminds me of this billboard.
via Bopuc
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one more example of the replacement of knowledge with ideology…..