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Bush's Elementary 'ABC' AIDS Campaign Buys
Political Favor, Not Relief For Those At Risk

President Bush's ABC approach to AIDS promotes Abstinence, Being faithful, and correct and consistent use of Condoms. Restrictions passed by Congress require that at least one third of HIV prevention be spend on abstinence-until-marriage programs.

Tell that to Mpolokeng in South Africa:

" In 1984, she married her high school sweetheart. Her husband left to work as a miner in South Africa and was seldom home. He returned for good when he became too ill to work, and Mpolokeng took care of him. In 2005 her husband died, and Mpolokeng started to feel sick as well. She went to be tested and found out she was HIV-positive." [CARE]

Tell that to Gatrude in Uganda::

"Every day she remains in the sex trade is another day she puts herself at risk of contracting HIV. She knows the risk, but she has no other options to put food on the table for her children. 'It's not by choice I do this work,' Gatrude says. 'If I had an alternative, I would stop this work immediately'." [CARE]

Tell that to Fauster in Rwanda:

"Her husband died when she was six months pregnant; people told her he died from AIDS, but she didn't understand, and thought he had been poisoned. Before she gave birth, she went in for pre-natal care and tested positive for HIV." [CARE]

It's not too late to challenge the arbitrary restrictions that current policy places on U.S. funding for HIV prevention. CARE supports recent legislation introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, to strengthen HIV prevention efforts by providing greater flexibility to organizations like CARE that confront the AIDS pandemic every day. Help us build momentum for this important initiative by asking your senators to co-sponsor the HIV Prevention for Youth Act today.

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