Ruth, Alice and Sophie went to Mexico this year for the 17th biennial International Aids Conference, but it could be you in 2010!!! They went as UNICEF youth volunteer delegates, and Ruth is heavily involved with the Students Stop AIDS campaign. ‘Today has been full of cultural exploits,’ writes Ruth in her blog, and it’s [...]

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Abstinence only programmes are funded primarily by the American government, and must be delivered to the general public in countries with a generalised HIV epidemic in order to continue receiving American (PEPFAR) funding.
Many say that abstinence only programmes do not work and in fact increase the chances of contracting HIV because safe sex is not [...]

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PEPFAR has been reauthorized and though they revoked the clause allocating a minimum of 33% of resources on abstinence till marriage programmes, now 50% must be spent on abstinence, delay of sexual debut, fidelity and partner reduction in all countries with a generalised AIDS epidemic. Failure to comply may result in defunding. The previous American [...]

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