Uganda: Politics:Condoms Lose Ground in HIV Prevention

31 August 2005

New York — Central America and Uganda this week became the latest targets for right-wing leaders to blast HIV/AIDS prevention efforts that stray from the George W. Bush administration's "abstinence-only" ideology.

One of the country's most influential faith-based organisations, Focus on the Family (FOF), charged that a U.S. not-for-profit group, Advocates for Youth, "is asking its members and supporters to contact key Ugandan health and government officials and urge them to more fully embrace condoms and other forms of birth control".

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