San Jose Adult Entertainment: New US Plan to Battle AIDS Slows Growth in Treatment
Asked about that, Dr. Goosby said he was “advocating for numbers all over the place, above and below five million,” and that he considered four million “more like a floor.”
The five-year plan, written in bland social welfare bureaucratese, envisions greater focus on prevention, on stopping mother-child transmission, and on treating the sickest, pregnant women and those with tuberculosis. It endorses “sustainable, country-owned and country-driven programs.”
It is nearly silent on several controversial issues: how much Pepfar will emphasize abstinence, whether and how it will get condoms to patients of the many missionary hospitals that refuse to issue them, whether it will support women’s health clinics that also do abortions, whether it will support giving clean needles or methadone to drug addicts, whether it will require groups working with prostitutes to oppose prostitution, and whether it will cut off countries that criminalize homosexual sex.