Third World countries where the AIDS virus is endemic are doing enough to curb the spread? Are they using the financial aid to educate and treat their masses?
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There is no doubt that much of the money gets misused and stolen before it reaches the people who actually use it to do good, but alot of it is being used productively, too. It's important to look at the situation with realistic eyes: If a person cannot read or write and is unable to get clean drinking water or food for their family then HIV prevention tends to not be very high on their priorities. They are faced with the immediate problem of trying to survive and avoid starvation. Cultural beliefs and lack of education continue to cause the rates in some of those areas to rise. Unfortunately, the current government in the US is wasting much of the US Aid offered to these countries by earmarking large percentages of the funds for teaching abstinence. It's been shown that this course of action doesn't realistically work in these areas and that many more lives could be saved if that money went towards providing condoms and better HIV/AIDS medications for people in those countries.
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