Bush's Cross Costs Lives

An urgent action from Planned Parenthood:

Last month, the U.S. government’s own Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that made headlines for weeks. Why? The report found that the Bush administration’s insistence on abstinence-only HIV prevention programs is crippling our ability to fight this deadly virus.

The Bush administration’s ideologically-motivated insistence on using abstinence-only programs to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean is costing lives in the very countries we most need to help.

Currently, one third of all global AIDS prevention funds must go to abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, despite the fact that they do NOT work!

Not only are abstinence-only programs ineffective, they are diverting desperately-needed resources from programs that are effective in preventing the spread of the virus.

In order to comply with this funding requirement, programs have had to reduce funding for essential Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programming, as well as programs for people with the highest risk of contracting HIV -- sexually active youth, truckers, sex workers, and couples in which one partner is HIV negative and the other is HIV positive.

The Bush administration’s unscientific insistence on abstinence-only programs is preventing HIV/AIDS programs from helping the people that are most at risk and most in need of help.

Click here to help save lives by urging your members of Congress to stop funding these ineffective abstinence-only programs immediately.