Obama Administration Spending $63 Billion on ‘Woman-Centered’ Global Health Care Program

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2010-09-03 09:59

Article here. Excerpt:

'(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is focused not just on health-care reform in the United States – but also on improving health care systems around the world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Monday.

The new plan has a “woman- and girl-centered approach,” according to an administration fact sheet.

Speaking at Johns Hopkins University, Clinton outlined the six-year, $63-billion Obama administration initiative to bring global health care services “to more people in more places.” The administration’s Global Health Initiative has “everything” to do with foreign policy, she said.
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Clinton also said the administration was “moving beyond” the ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful, Correct contraceptive use) anti-AIDS approach adopted during the Bush years to an “A to Z approach to [HIV] prevention” that includes measures such as “male circumcision [and] the prevention of mother-to-child transmission” as well as better HIV screening and education.'

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What never fails to irk me is how the commenters seem to see every economic and political angle in an action such as this but seem to be completely blind to the gender component. Of the 20 comments only this one

    Again, something for "women and girls". What did we males do to deserve such hate and neglect? Are we just cannon fodder for imperialists? Ths USA has no money, it will have to come from China. Why not just let China donate the funds?

even mentions the elephant in the room. And half of this comment is a complaint about the money.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Sat, 2010-09-04 13:41