Bush Administration Reduces Presence At AIDS Conference For Fear of Being Booed
Bush Administration Reduces Presence At AIDS Conference For Fear of Being Booed
Yesterday, 24,000 scientists, activists, and officials arrived in Toronto for the world’s “largest ever AIDS conference.” “[S]ome of the most important breakthroughs in the fight against AIDS have been announced” at these conferences.
But instead of engaging the global community on solutions, the Bush administration has decided to cut back its presence at this year’s conference because it can’t stand mild criticism:
Travel restrictions implemented by the office of the U.S.a Global AIDS Coordinator following the 2002 International AIDS Conference in Barcelona — at which former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson was booed by critics who believed the U.S. contribution to the Global AIDS Fund was insufficient — reduced the maximum number of HHS officials who can attend the conference by two-thirds, from more than 230 in 2002 to 50, according to HHS spokesperson Bill Hall.
The Bush administration’s “intensely ideological approach” to HIV/AIDS issues has stirred more resentment than hope among the activist community. The government’s “ABC” policy — “Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Use a Condom” — has been “criticized for excessively encouraging abstinence and marital fidelity,” with condoms demoted to “a last-resort option.”
Bill Gates sharply criticized the administration’s approach in the conference’s keynote address, pointing out that abstinence “is often not an option for poor women and girls, who have no choice but to marry at an early age.” A recent GAO report found that the President’s policy had “created a culture of fear” among aid partners.
Bush’s policies sound like they deserve a few boos.
– Rohan Mascarenhas
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August 15th, 2006 at 1:40 pmYes good idea for Bush Regime to lay low on AIDS issue, since they have done next to nothing to eradicate it! Plus they even refuse to give condoms to Africans to prevent it there! In US they want young people to remain as virgins > lol.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:44 pmhow does one abstain from being raped, exactly?
August 15th, 2006 at 1:46 pmboooooo Bush’s policies!
August 15th, 2006 at 1:49 pmBush wants virgin soldiers to use as cannon fodder in his wars for Oil > Bush is becoming more Hitlerian daily!
August 15th, 2006 at 1:51 pmThats a brave Commander-in-Chief.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:59 pmGeena Davis would take the crap out of him, anytime.
Moderated by Admin.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:01 pmYou don’t actually think he hears the boos over the “voices” that tell him to ignore the boos, do you?
August 15th, 2006 at 2:06 pmReply to *NEOCON*
After reading the posts on this site for several months there seems to
– snip –
anything about taking liberties)….dam America!!!
A 132-line Straw Man. Your mother must be very proud, neocon.
(Is this really the best the right has anymore? I miss Seixon…)
August 15th, 2006 at 2:07 pmNEOCON is posting this same diatribe on every TP thread today, using different screen names, so very childish > Rove hire better trolls please!
August 15th, 2006 at 2:08 pmLiberal activist Richard Gere said Bill Clinton didn’t do enough on the AIDS issue in 8 years.
Bush has pledged $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa. Does this not get any credit from liberals?
August 15th, 2006 at 2:10 pmModerated by Admin.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:12 pmREPUBLICAN, big mikey, NEOCON not going anywhere, Joe Lieberman, or whoever you are: I for one would prefer that you stick to a single identity here, and I am sure that everyone else here would prefer that you not cut and paste the same very long post on every thread.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:14 pmGeez, this guy is making a lot of money today.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:15 pmJay Randal–and realscientist….
this guy did say that it could be posted anywhere……
August 15th, 2006 at 2:15 pmjust like a republican… when the going gets rough, make crap up.
no conviction, always the bait and switch.
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August 15th, 2006 at 2:18 pmi’ve posted this because it addresses any issues republicans try to switch topics on…. in other words, this post can be placed on any republican blog and it will make sense. thanks ‘republican’ bloggers for making this so terribly funny… if you think my post is foolish…please remember-stop the bait and switch (making crap up)… oh, i forgot – i should not mention ‘terribly’… it only helps with the chicken little ‘the sky is falling’ type of bs that republicans always vomit.
oh, i can’t post on republican blogs?
what is that you say, they’ve disabled comments? from all but registered republicans?
August 15th, 2006 at 2:18 pmFantastic….if I post a comment that includes ‘9/11′ it gets yanked immediately, but for some unfathomable reason NEOCON is given free license to spew his cut-n-paste strawman filth multiple times across multiple threads.
We were told that 9/11 discussions weren’t allowed here because they tend to hijack the thread, but apparently, posting 132 cut-n-pasted lines repeatedly into a thread isn’t quite as despicable…
Hypocrisy, thy name is Think Progress.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:20 pmPost 15 stevie > NEOCON could be Seixon > he gets paid to post or some other GOP/Karl Rove hired nut!
August 15th, 2006 at 2:20 pmWhat is worse, TripMaster, is this clown is posting all over the place using a different identity nearly every time.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:21 pmI am sure that *NEOCON* is your preferred name for me…..so I will only go by that from this point on…..I promise…and you know that there is a price for freedom of speech…..
Talk to you “progressives†soon…..
August 15th, 2006 at 2:22 pmChoosing to call himself NEOCON. How embarrassing.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:26 pmNEOCON > we will just call you TROLL on here till you get evicted > lol
August 15th, 2006 at 2:27 pmJay Randal sez:
NEOCON could be Seixon > he gets paid to post or some other GOP/Karl Rove hired nut!
While it’s indisputable that both NEOCON and Seixon are paid shills, I rather doubt they are one and the same. Seixon has all the tactics of intellectually dishonest argument down pat…this post-a phonebook-and-run crap is not his style.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:30 pmNEOCON, all I can say is….you’re a real dick.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:35 pmBono hails Bush’s Aids funding
Bono says Europe needs to match the US contribution
U2 frontman Bono has welcomed US President George Bush’s decision to spend more on Aids prevention in Africa and the Caribbean.
The US leader is to increase the country’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief budget by $10 billion (£6.28bn) to $15 billion (£9.43bn) over the next five years.
President Bush said on Tuesday the budget would help prevent seven million new infections.
“If we can turn the president’s bold long term vision into near term results we’re excited,” Bono said in a statement.
“Any delay in increased funding means more lives lost and an even bigger cheque in the future.”
Bono was working with Nelson Mandela on an Aids benefit concert
The singer says the US needs to spend $2.5bn (£1.5bn) out of this year’s budget to help tackle the Aids crisis.
He said Europe must also match the US contribution.
But he said the American donation was a big step in the right direction.
“The president’s emphasis upon anti-retroviral treatment represents a true paradigm shift and is to be wholly welcomed,” he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2704889.stm
August 15th, 2006 at 2:35 pmYeah NEOCON posts deleted > bravo to Judd.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:36 pmMore facts:
Geldof defends Bush’s Africa policyLast Updated Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:46:44 EDT
CBC Arts
George W. Bush has done more to help Africa than other U.S. presidents, says Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof.
Geldof made the comment in an interview in the current issue of Time magazine. The Irish rocker was relating how he had to defend Bush while he was in France.
Bob Geldof (AP photo) “[The French] refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American president for Africa. But it’s empirically so,” Geldof said.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:39 pmYeah NEOCON posts deleted > bravo to Judd.
Comment by Jay Randal — August 15, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
But here comes Exley (sigh).
August 15th, 2006 at 2:44 pmBe that as it may Exley, you have to admit, that the US and Bush are about as popular as a rain cloud at a picnic.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:44 pmBush’s aid to Africa; look the former VP of South Africa in a public statement said that his means of avoiding catching AIDS after having had sex with a woman he knew to have it, was taking a shower after the act, and there are still people who consider him a possible presidential candidate. Aid is not exactly going to help the AIDS situation out here, what we need is that 15bn to be spent on something more productive, like researching a cure.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:49 pmKrazny, I am not saying he is popular. What I am showing is that the facts prove that his alleged unpopularity in this area is not warranted. Here are two men who do a great deal for AIDS-stricken countries, including those in Africa, telling the world that Georeg W. Bush has done more for Africa than any other president and that Europe should follow his lead in allocating more money for AIDS prevention in Africa and the Caribbean.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:49 pmokay, help me out here. The ABC policy…Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. How can one Abstain when using a Condom?
August 15th, 2006 at 2:58 pmExley,
While Bush promised the aid, Bono has since gone back to him to try to get those promises fullfilled. Article here on how much of that 15B has been alloted.
http://www.aegis.com/news/afp/2003/AF030962.html
August 15th, 2006 at 3:26 pmkey phrase = “empirically so”
nice pun
August 15th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI am NEOCON….not my chosen name…but thats what “progressives” here would call me….
Now that I have introduced myself…let me say that I hope there will be some good debate and discussion regarding the future of america…..well I am sure there will be some good name calling b/c thats what most of the “progressives” here do best….
I am not a paid “Rove-er” nor a blog hound….just someone that stumbled…yes stumbled…on this site while re-searching american soldiers “letters home”…..
Once here I was shocked at what I read….anyway….
Jay Randal you ARE exactly what my cut and paste post was mocking…..
August 15th, 2006 at 4:00 pmHorseman #25….again….exactly what my post was mocking…we can call people dic** here? is that part of the terms of use agreement….
August 15th, 2006 at 4:03 pm*neonut* you are exactly what the world mocks.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:04 pmFirst:
Then:
Uh yeah, because we want to debate assholes that copy and paste large blocks of text that “mock” us. Moron.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:19 pmnym@alias.net
oh, i can’t post on republican blogs?
what is that you say, they’ve disabled comments? from all but registered republicans?
thanks for the piece of information…if I am ever on a republican blog I will make sure to register….
August 15th, 2006 at 4:22 pmspudge_boy the name calling will not make me run from this site….
August 15th, 2006 at 4:24 pmthe best part about the individuals communique… s/he quotes the terms of use, yet defiles them at the same time. how very ‘republican’.
republicans have no conviction, just hypocracy laced with bait and switch.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:26 pmyour welcome
August 15th, 2006 at 4:26 pmWhere did I say run from this site. Idiot.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:28 pmdots? yes lotsa them things there. but……,
there are muthaf@#$in snakes on the plane! SNAKES ON THE PLANE!
August 15th, 2006 at 4:33 pmNEOCON is not even remotely amusing, but MA told me on another TP thread that “big mikey” who posts as NEOCON works for Karl Rove like MA does!
August 15th, 2006 at 4:51 pmBut Bush is busy reading The Stranger, and I just know that he’ll change his approach once he finishes reading Camus’ book.
It shouldn’t take him more than a few years to finish.
August 15th, 2006 at 5:07 pmHmmm:
“Former President Bill Clinton leaped to the defense of the Bush administration’s AIDS efforts on Tuesday, saying the United States is spending more to fight HIV than any other government.
Clinton joined Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in praising President George W. Bush’s President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, saying it has done more good than harm.”
I guess the people attending these care more about politics than about helping people. Good for them.
August 15th, 2006 at 5:14 pmWow, there is a resounding critique.
When I drove home from work yesterday, it did more good than harm.
August 15th, 2006 at 5:19 pmLol NEOCON > you must be the newly hired Rove guy for TP?! As for eradicating AIDS: It does NOT help to withhold condoms being distributed in Africa!
August 15th, 2006 at 5:45 pmJay-right on with the condoms—cant argue….so what do we do?
We have to change the social “norms”….yes…that means getting involved in another countries business and telling them what to do (through education of course)….
Krazny #35…
the article you referenced/posted a link to…was from three years ago….please try and stay current…September 17, 2003
August 15th, 2006 at 6:15 pmBoy you are a childish retard aren’t you? This from the idiot that wants to debate by mocking people. Heck of a job there NEOCON!
August 15th, 2006 at 6:15 pmthe article I cited was in reference to Exley’s article written in 2001 or 2002, no sure which. I was providing an update to his out of date materials. Perhaps you should pay attention to the thread a bit better, instead of throwing a tantrum.
cheers
August 15th, 2006 at 6:25 pm*neonut* – ‘perceived’ truth = funny.
you do the ‘dr. evil’ quote dance with that noise?
reality is always a matter of ‘perception’. it appears ‘clear’ your ‘perception’ differs ‘greatly’ than many on this site, in the american ‘public’, and perhaps the ‘world’.
double blind ignorance, never seen a republican pawn without it.
if you can read, hopefully you can understand as well, which might entail a re-read. regardless, sociological evolution will bring it’s own inheritance.
August 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pmSpudge_boy…if you gave me anything and I mean anything of interest to comment on I would….other than your “progressive” name calling…..
I think it was you more than jay randal that I was addressing in my initial cut and paste post…..
Go Team Terror! and
Wow, there is a resounding critique.
When I drove home from work yesterday, it did more good than harm. …thats what you have to ADD to this post……hum, maybe I overestimated this site….
it seems that you are the “childish retard” (your words, buddy)…..i did not know this site had a problem with the mentally challenged….oh, I may have left myself open on that one–huh????
August 15th, 2006 at 6:31 pmalmost forgot…
just like a republican… when the going gets rough, make crap up.
no conviction, always the bait and switch.
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August 15th, 2006 at 6:31 pmi’ve posted this because it addresses any issues republicans try to switch topics on…. in other words, this post can be placed on any republican blog and it will make sense. thanks ‘republican’ bloggers for making this so terribly funny… if you think my post is foolish…please remember-stop the bait and switch (making crap up)… oh, i forgot – i should not mention ‘terribly’… it only helps with the chicken little ‘the sky is falling’ type of bs that republicans always vomit.
nym@alias.net …ok…ok you can take 15 minutes to put together a neat response….my perception is that your reality is not going to make america a better place…of course my perception is not in line with most (probably 99%) of the people on this post…..but doesnt that make it more interesting? heck, if I wanted to hear myself talk I would go to a conservative post…..
sociological evolution will bring it’s own inheritance. …hum? an enigma wrapped in a riddle or something like that…..etc….etc…..etc……or shall it be “et cetera” on this hob-nobbery site….
August 15th, 2006 at 6:39 pmnym@alias.net …the republican posting thing does nothing for me….conviction point is interesting though….you are right—its the republicans that change course everytime they get booed at a speech…..? opps that the dems…sorry…
August 15th, 2006 at 6:42 pmagain… double blind ignorance, never seen a republican pawn without it.
here’s a riddle, that can be turned while you flick your diddle…
do all republicans rant in playground politics, or just the ones that visit this site?
August 15th, 2006 at 6:46 pmNEOCON,
You are an asshole who came onto this web site and spammed a copy/paste about “blah, blah, blah” Then you said you wanted to debate. I don’t think you are worth it. In fact, I don’t think any of you Neo-Cons are worth your wieght in salt. You people are the lowest form of scum on the panet. I spend all day talking with people all around the world and other than on this message board I can’t find any of you people in real life. SO, I am happy and content with just calling you a dumbass. I calls ‘em like I sees ‘em. Stupid.
August 15th, 2006 at 6:56 pm“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” -George Bush, AntiChrist (July 9, 2004)
August 15th, 2006 at 7:04 pmSpudge_Boy
You cant find any of us in real life….hum? maybe thats the classic “bubble”…I am sure you have heard about….you know,—-I do not know ANYBODY that is voting for George Bush—–huh? maybe thats because you surround yourself with individuals that are JUST LIKE YOU…..you know….people that call individuals a-holes and scum….you are the “progressive” of the future…your views (along with some pretty nasty language) will SAVE THE WORLD…..but first, you must destroy america….
I am not too sure if I have really started to rant…..not yet anyway……if you gave me something other than a-hole, scum, retard, and idiot maybe we could talk……but you are just like all the libs out there…..if you cant get your point across–raise your voice, complain, and start calling people names…..you certainly will lead america like that…..
August 16th, 2006 at 8:01 amlet’s not get too excited about that $15bn pledge:
PEPFAR Watch has plenty more…
August 16th, 2006 at 10:39 am