Brazilians love sex and deny to accept 40 Million US$ from Bush
 

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Brazil Refuses US AIDS Cash Over Bush Administrations 'Moral' Conditions
by The Associated Press

Brazil won't accept some $40 million in U.S. funding to fight AIDS unless Washington drops a clause condemning prostitution and requiring abstinence teaching, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

The head of Brazil's anti-AIDS program, Pedro Chequer, sent a letter to the U.S. government last week saying that his country would not accept the money under the conditions imposed in funding agreement.

"We don't accept this meddling because it interferes with our sovereignty. We have our anti-AIDS program and they have their way of fighting AIDS," said a press officer at the Health Ministry who declined to be identified.

The money is part of a funding package from USAID, which allotted $48 million to Brazil for its AIDS campaign between 2003 and 2008. The Health Ministry estimates that $8 million dollars of that money has already been spent.

Brazil has received funding from USAID since 1996.

The Health Ministry said the clause that condemns prostitution -- which is legal in Brazil -- was not in the original agreement signed by Brazil, but was added later by the Bush administration.

Brazil is one of the first countries to oppose the Bush administration's policy of linking foreign aid to policies favored by the religious right.

Brazilian officials said that condemning prostitution represented a serious problem for their anti-AIDS program, which works with many non-governmental organizations that encourage the use of condoms by sex workers -- one of the groups with the highest risk of getting AIDS.

Brazil has made great progress in curbing AIDS by distributing millions of free condoms every year at street festivals like carnival. It also provides anti-AIDS drugs free to anyone who needs them.

About 600,000 of Brazil's 183 million people are infected with the HIV virus.

?Associated Press 2005

:thumbsup to Brazil
:321GFY to GW

has nothing to do with brazilians love of sex (although i wont argue, they love it) ... it is much easier to educate and regulate sex workers if prostitution is legal.

I guess it has because the US demands 'requiring abstinence teaching'. Hehehe .... how can you teach this to a Brazilian?

About 1 000 000 of USA 270 million people are infected with the HIV virus.
Thats about the same, how come they want to give advice? :)

Slippery little fucks running this country.

abstinence teaching .. what. until marriage? :helpme Bush and his religious advisers have no advice to give anybody when it comes to aids.. What a fucking fanatic..

go go go

abstinence, gimme a fucking break.

This country is sickening with trying to outlaw everything instead of just teaching people how to do things right, like wear a condom. But the religious conservatives wouldn't like that, and they need their money so say what they want to hear. Its disgusting.

Soon sex will otlawed in the US

Who wrote that shit? Prostitution IS NOT LEGAL in Brazil.

This is why Brazil didn't accept the money: "a clause condemning prostitution and requiring abstinence teaching, the Health Ministry said Wednesday."

We don't have to follow GWB religious beliefs, I'm sure his a moral person that only had sex AFTER he was married.

Yeah right. :321GFY

Way to go Brazil!

someone, send GW a copy of "Sex for Dummies" or "Kamasutra 101"

Watch out... Maybe he will claim that you have WMD ....

( Women of Mass Dimension )

1:270 is infected in the us? thats insane? 1:305 in brazil is a lot but is the us number really correct? .. checked our own stats and TOTAL number of infected since 1983 is 1:1667..

But the law is not enforced.