HIV/AIDS

New Legislation Answers Institute of Medicine's Concerns About President Bush's HIV Prevention Strategy

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 16th, 2007

A new report released today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), shows that the fight against AIDS is being undermined by the requirement that most US funding to address sexual transmission of the HIV virus go to abstinence-until-marriage programs. The report states that the requirement greatly limits the ability of countries to respond to local needs.

To fix this dangerous flaw in the US approach to global AIDS, a bill was introduced this week in Congress that would lift the funding restriction. The PATHWAY Act, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Chris Shays (R- CT), would eliminate the abstinence-until-marriage funding requirement, fulfilling a primary...

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