AIDS and Africa...

UN says encouraging abstinence heightens AIDS rates

• The U.S. government's emphasis on abstinence-only programs to prevent AIDS is hobbling Africa's battle against the pandemic by downplaying the role of condoms, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
  
  Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said fundamentalist Christian ideology was driving Washington's AIDS assistance program known as PEPFAR with disastrous results, including condom shortages in Uganda.
  
  The Bush administration favors prevention programs that focus on abstinence rather than condom use and has more than doubled funding for U.S. abstinence-only programmes over the past five years.
  
  As part of President George W. Bush's global AIDS plan, the U.S. government has already budgeted about $8 million this year for abstinence-only projects in Uganda, human rights groups say.
  
  Activists in both Uganda and the United States say the country is now in the grip of condom shortage so severe that men are using plastic garbage bags in an effort to protect themselves.
  

At least Reuters doesn't try to hide the anti-Christian bias of the UN and Stephen Lewis.

However, I thought we aren't supposed to go around the world forcing our culture on people. Isn't that what the left tells us is wrong with our Iraq policy? Isn't that why we aren't supposed to make immigrants learn English?

I guess the only option left is to allow the sex-addicted Africans to kill themselves and their societies by spreading HIV/AIDS through irresponsible sex.

After all, we wouldn't want to be accused of trying to force them to live according to our culture and customs, would we?