Uganda's fate determined by The Decider

From Talk To Action:

Uganda was once an HIV prevention success story, where an ambitious government-sponsored prevention campaign, including massive condom distribution and messages about delaying sex and reducing numbers of partners, pushed HIV rates down from 15 percent in the early 1990s to 5 percent in 2001.

But conservative evangelicals rewrote this history.

Crushing news out of Uganda last week.

The Bush administration's $1 billion experiment in using abstinence messages as the basis of HIV prevention has born its first fruit:
In a public speech on May 18, Uganda's AIDS Commissioner Kihumuro Apuuli announced that HIV infections have almost doubled in Uganda over the past two years, from 70,000 in 2003 to 130,000 in 2005.

And despite this chilling wake-up call, Bush has empowered Christian right activists to continue to push their abstinence-only agenda at a UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS, to begin next week.

The whole article is a must-read, as it outlines all the key players involved in the abstinence conspiracy.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/25/101656/916