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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Apparently ignoring AIDS will not make it go away.

God forbid the Bush admninstration teach anyone about condom use:
The annual AIDS update reported that an estimated 39.4 million people are now infected with the HIV virus, up from 36.6 million in 2002. More than 3 million people have died of the disease this year.

In sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest infection rate in the world, the number of infected people appears to have stabilized at 25.4 million, or 7.4 percent of the population.

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For biological reasons, women are more likely than men to contract HIV during sex. In many parts of the world, women are less educated and more vulnerable to being coerced into unprotected sex.

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Female infections also are on the rise in the United States, disproportionately affecting blacks and Hispanics. These groups also have the poorest survival rates, probably because they seek treatment late or have inferior health care, Stanecki said.

No really, that's part of their arguement. God forbids it*.

*Please note that some of the language used in this link I do not agree with. I will present it however and leave you to draw your own conclusions based upon it.