Groups Worried About New US Aid Czar

[rodeodance]

......"In today's world, America's security is linked to the capacity of foreign states to govern justly and effectively," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday as she announced the plan. "Our foreign assistance must help people get results.".........


"Under his direction, HIV prevention programmes have shifted from being based in public health science to being dictated by the abstinence-only-until-marriage ideology of the Bush administration," said James Wagoner, president of the Washington-based Advocates for Youth.

Activists fear that too much ideology in the foreign aid system may derail other important programmes like family planning and population management.........


Tobias' record in the fight against AIDS has also been marred by accusations of favouring drug corporations by displaying a preference for using more expensive, brand-name drugs instead of cheaper, safe generic versions that could have reached many more people in impoverished countries.............


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0120-08.htm

Published on Friday, January 20, 2006 by Inter Press Service

Groups Worried About New US Aid Czar
by Emad Mekay

[izzie]

1. Why is it that the GOP always wants to be in someones bedroom?

I never could figure it out. It is not only here but around the world.Very odd.

[ixion]

2. In yer head, in yer bed, til yer dead.

the GOP creed. :puke:

It's about control, IMO. They want it on every level, including the bedroom.

[applegrove]

3. The fastest way for Africa to get middle class is for birth control

to be available. Abstinance is just not an option for the part of Africa that is terribly poor.

Why doesn't the USA and the neocons who come up with American religious policy .. why don't they want Africa to be middle class?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. It's a win-win position: either the countries receiving the aid accept

the terms of getting the money or the U.S. doesn't provide aid (which I suspect was the original motivation behind the conditions).

[rodeodance]

5. according to the article--the emphasis will be on the new democracries.