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I assume you can back up your assertions that it was the "A,B" rather than the "C" that led to a decline in AIDS in Uganda with peer-reviewed research. Or did the "AIDS elite" block its publication?
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OK - how about this (The A,B,C from the article is the same as I've used above.):
"The historical approach to HIV has been little A, little B and big C. The public health community at large did not believe in abstinence, but Africans were far ahead of the worldwide public health community on this," said Anne Peterson, a physician and the USAID director of global health who is responsible for overseeing U.S. anti-HIV programs. "Kids are willing and able to abstain from sex. Condoms play a role. They are better than nothing, but the core of Uganda's success story is big A, big B and little C."
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Bloody hell. Do I really need to point out that the Washington Times is NOT peer-reviewed literature? And please note that I'm not denying that emphasis on abstinence and monogamy has reduced rates of HIV incidence--as mentioned, public health in the past decade has strongly pushed
all of those as ways to reduce AIDS. Your allegation is that the push to increase condom usage has been a "spectacular failure." Even in the Times article, it says nothing of the sort.