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02/02/2008: "Destitute USA government sends billions in AIDS aid"

A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas — arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency — may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.

President Bush wants to double and House Democrats want to triple spending on a program that is now treating 1.4 million people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where he will visit in two weeks.

Democrats also want to slash spending on a multimillion-dollar component that emphasizes sexual abstinence. And that has conservative groups furious.

[ Democrats have it half right: third world breeding strategies do not include abstinence. But if we take that realization further, third world behavior does not lend itself to not getting AIDS, having stable governments, or any other form of large scale organization. Take this money and use it to pay off the US debt instead. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080202/ap_on_go_pr_wh/global_aids