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Andy (Andrew)
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posted 29 January 2006 06:14 PM      Profile for Andy (Andrew)   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Money for AIDS

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President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly a quarter of its grants to religious groups, and aggressively is pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.

Award recipients include a Christian relief organization famous for its televised appeals to feed hungry children, a well-known Catholic charity, and a group run by the son of evangelist Billy Graham, according to the State Department.


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Conservative Christian allies of the president are pressing the U.S. foreign aid agency to give fewer dollars to groups that distribute condoms or work with prostitutes.

Secular organizations in Africa are raising concerns that new money to groups without AIDS experience may dilute the impact of Bush's historic three-year-old program.


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Samaritan's Purse, which is run by Graham's son, Franklin. It says its mission is "meeting critical needs of victims of war, poverty, famine, disease and natural disaster while sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ."

_World Vision. The 56-year-old Christian organization is known for its TV appeals _ some with celebrities such as game show host Alex Trebek _ that asked people to support a Third World child.

_Catholic Relief Services. It was awarded $6.2 million to teach abstinence and fidelity in three countries; $335 million in a consortium providing antiretroviral treatment; and $9 million to help orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDs. The group offers "complete and correct information about condoms" but will not promote, purchase or distribute them, said Carl Stecker, senior program director for HIV/AIDS.

_HOPE. The global relief organization founded by the International Churches of Christ recently brought comedian Chris Rock to South Africa for an AIDS prevention event. AIDS grants support HOPE in several countries.

_World Relief, founded by the National Association of Evangelicals. It won $9.7 million for abstinence work in four countries.


The money that church people donate every week for overseas missions where does it go if the government is paying for this too?


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M. Spector
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posted 29 January 2006 06:46 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The article casually refers to USAID as if everyone knows what it is. It's a cunning acronym that sounds like a charitable organization giving humanitarian assistance.

The United States Agency for International Development is an arm of the State Department. In addition to handing over AIDS money to churches, USAID channels US government funding to opposition parties and anti-government NGOs in countries where governments are less than completely compliant with the demands of the State Department, the World Bank, and the IMF.

USAID's current strategy may be summarized as follows:

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Provision of aid is intended to further the national interest by preempting threats and disasters, creating and/or opening markets for goods and services, ensuring secure environments for investment, establishing zones of order and peace for U.S. business, and producing strategic allies that share U.S. ideological commitments. Source
In short, it's the US slush fund for the State Department's subversive activities around the world.

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Crippled_Newsie
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posted 30 January 2006 08:23 AM      Profile for Crippled_Newsie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So Mr. Bush is continuing to having his effect on people with HIV/AIDS: give grants to groups that don't know what they're doing, or; give it to the Catholics, who lie about whether or not condoms help prevent spread of HIV, or; give it religio-maniacal cronies of Mr. Bush himself (like the Graham family) who work hard to create a stigma surrounding condom use.

Lovely.


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