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  • Title: Feds defend AIDS policy as HIV rate increases among women worldwide.
    Journal: Wash Memo Alan Guttmacher Inst; 1992 Jul 29; (12):3-4. PubMed ID: 12344815.
    Abstract:
    The Bush Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services is coming under increasingly strong criticism of their conservative and political attitude about HIV/AIDS. A retired CDC official has claimed that senior staff selection and funding for family planning and AIDS have all been directed by the Reagan/Bush administration with an interest in politics and conservative morality, rather than public health. Members of Congress, the National Commission of AIDS, and HIV prevention advocates have claimed that the Executive branch is more concerned with politics than public health. The results of this year's international AIDS Conference (IAC) have indicated that education and prevention are still and will be the only known way of effectively dealing with AIDS. It is in these 2 areas that the Executive branch has been weakest. Education campaigns have been unrealistic in their unrealistic in their reliance upon a message of abstinence. The issue of condom usage has not been given the central role it deserves in these campaigns. The CDC claims that the television networks will not show adds that advocate condom usage. It is also feared that Federal legislation will restrict Federal funds for condom distribution programs in schools. If this occurs, the political fall out from the voting results could spell disaster from both a political and public health standpoint. The WHO data presented at this year's IAC shows that by 2000 most of the new HIV infections will be among women worldwide. Thus, according to the WHO's findings, the AIDS epidemic threatens male-dominated societies because women do not have enough power to protect themselves from disease.
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