Politically correctness in the fight against AIDS costs lives. The much touted Uganda success story that used ABC—abstinence, be faithful, and only then condoms—to reduce HIV infection rates dramatically, has backslid. Is the contrary CNN strategy—condoms, needle sharing, and negotiating sexual encounters—to blame? It seems to me that good case can be made. More, over at Secondhand Smoke .
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