November 22, 2009
UTNE READER

Shelf Life: Bush, the AIDS President?

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July - August 2008
by Danielle Maestretti 
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Some precautions that seem like no-brainers—testing prisoners for HIV, for example—aren’t as widely implemented as one might think. Prison Legal News (Aug. 2007) reports that just 10 states have mandatory HIV screening. What’s worse, 95 percent of prisons don’t provide condoms, or make available clean needles or bleach for safer tattooing. Since approximately 25 percent of people with HIV will be incarcerated at least once, and prisons are well-known “incubators and spreaders of disease,” as Prison Legal News puts it, someone ought to be investigating these outdated, prudish policies.

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Among them is the preponderance of abstinence-only education in our schools, which continues to expand despite scientific (and commonsense) consensus dictating that it doesn’t work. A study published in the British Medical Journal (July 26, 2007) determined that of 13 different abstinence-only programs for U.S. youth, none reduced the rate of HIV infection.

We’ll be dealing with the fallout from this administration’s HIV/AIDS policies for years to come. Perhaps we should just let Bush’s “legacy” speak for itself.

 

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