AIDS envoy demands US give more condoms
By Lawrence Altman
August 31,
The US Government's emphasis on abstinence programs to prevent AIDS is hobbling Africa's battle against the pandemic by playing down the role of condoms, a top United Nations official has charged.

The UN secretary-general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, said "Christian ideology" was driving the US AIDS assistance program with disastrous results such as a shortage of condoms in Uganda.

The charges were disputed by the Ugandan Government and an official of President George Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief, known as PEPFAR. The plan emphasises a policy known as ABC, which stands for abstinence, be faithful, and use condoms.

The dispute comes less than a week after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a public-private partnership based in Geneva, suspended $US201 million ($267 million) in grants to Uganda because of government mismanagement.

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