"Working Together for an AIDS-free Future for Girls": $210 Million PEPFAR - Gates Foundation - Nike Foundation partnership

Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2014-12-01 23:10

Link here. Excerpt:

'The global HIV/AIDS response is a shared responsibility. In addition to working with partner governments in the 65 countries with bilateral and regional programs, PEPFAR builds strategic public-private partnerships to maximize the U.S. government’s investment. With over 80 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in the hardest hit countries occurring in girls, the U.S. Department of State, through PEPFAR, is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Nike Foundation on a $210 million initiative to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women in up to 10 countries.

The goal of the partnership is to help girls develop into determined, resilient, empowered, AIDS-free, mentored and safe women. It will provide a core package of evidence-based interventions that have successfully addressed HIV risk behaviors, HIV transmission, and gender-based violence. Evidence shows that girls can reach their full potential when they have access to multiple interventions.'

Also see this document.

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... you also teach men to avoid it. But if you don't much care what happens to men, well...

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-12-02 02:07

I caught news item yesterday about news AIDS cases. Nationally, gay men make up about 60 percent of new AIDS cases. In Colorado, they make up 70%.

So by all means we should focus on girls in other countries instead of men in this country.

Even their own Web site says women make up 50% of new AIDS cases. I wonder who the other 50% are. Monkeys? Giraffes? The website then says women are affected "disproportionately." No, they're affected the same as men, but "we" care about women more than men, so we're going to help the women.

And everyone knows AIDS is a patriarchal conspiracy to oppress women.

So why not help both genders?

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2014-12-02 15:34