U.S. Spends Millions To Promote Condoms In Asia

[DavieVegas]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...e-condoms-asia

Can we spend anymore wasteful fucking money? This is rediculous! This president and his administration is just mind boggling.

In a deplorable waste of taxpayer dollars, the U.S. government has spent millions to promote condom use among injecting drug addicts in a Central Asian country known for illicit drug production and opiate consumption.

The National Institutes of Health has actually given an Ivy League university professor more than $2 million in federal funds to study methods that could help combat the spread of AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and Hepatitis C among intravenous drug users in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet socialist republic that serves as a main route for Russia and Europe bound narcotics. Another goal is to “reduce unsafe injection practices” among junkies.

This unbelievable waste of public resources was exposed this week by a conservative news organization, which links the Columbia University Social Work professor’s description of the study on the U.S. Department of Health website. The goal is to “rigorously test the efficacy of an innovative, couples-based HIV/STI risk reduction intervention to decrease new cases of HIV and Hepatitis C and incidence of sexually transmitted infections as well as to reduce unsafe injection practices and increase condom use among injecting drug users and their heterosexual, intimate partners in Shu, Kazakhstan.”

Indeed, a noble cause but most likely one that doesn’t create a sense of urgency for most Americans. Regardless, the studies were funded by the U.S. government over three years with the first chunk of cash—$676,058—coming in 2008. In 2009 Uncle Sam forked over $670,914 and $670,212 this year for a grand total of $2,017,184 to entice druggies thousands of miles away to use condoms.

The professor, Nabila El-Bassel, convinced the government to fund her project by claiming that a “sharp increase in injection drug use” has led Central Asia to experience one of the world’s fastest growing AIDS epidemics and that there is a “race to develop and implement” effective AIDS interventions for injection drug users and their sexual partners to stem the spread of the deadly disease in Central Asian towns along “drug trafficking routes.” Eligible participants in the U.S.-funded study must have at least one partner report “unsafe injection and unprotected sexual intercourse in the past 30 days.”

[mountainmiester]

Thanks for the info, this is unbelievable but so fucking common these days. My only fear is that we loose our outrage and become numb to this type of waste.

One wonders if any of these countries will be coming to our rescue once our impending financial collapse happens.

[BlackCrayon]

someone has to try and some foreign people from reproducing so much.

[Sly]

It's $3M over 3 years, in which hopefully we gain some new technology/knowledge while testing somebody else's citizens (and not our own) and maybe cut down AIDS in the process.

Of course... we could try new products on ourselves instead. How about that?

[$5 submissions]

It's wasted money. The best contraception is an improving economy which fuels education levels for women. As studies indicate in Mexico and other places, the higher the education level of women, the less children they have. Also, as indicated by population trends in Singapore, Italy, Germany, and Japan--once a country reaches a certain economic threshold, birthrate drops... A LOT.

[tiger]

Originally Posted by Sly

It's $3M over 3 years, in which hopefully we gain some new technology/knowledge while testing somebody else's citizens (and not our own) and maybe cut down AIDS in the process.

Of course... we could try new products on ourselves instead. How about that?

That's how I read it as well.

Originally Posted by $5 submissions

It's wasted money. The best contraception is an improving economy which fuels education levels for women. As studies indicate in Mexico and other places, the higher the education level of women, the less children they have. Also, as indicated by population trends in Singapore, Italy, Germany, and Japan--once a country reaches a certain economic threshold, birthrate drops... A LOT.

True but those diseases are still a problem in every single one of those countries and every other country for that matter.

[DavieVegas]

Originally Posted by $5 submissions

It's wasted money. The best contraception is an improving economy which fuels education levels for women. As studies indicate in Mexico and other places, the higher the education level of women, the less children they have. Also, as indicated by population trends in Singapore, Italy, Germany, and Japan--once a country reaches a certain economic threshold, birthrate drops... A LOT.

Good point!