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Don't undercut strategies that save lives!

Judith Baker

2008-08-06, Issue 393

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/49944

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This loose talk about AIDS can kill people - The fate of MDGs.

It is very dangerous to say without data that bed nets, circumcision, or other AIDS prevention methods don't work. That they might not work in very extreme situations is no reason to spread the false impression that they don't work.

Both DO reduce transmission when backed up by proper health care systems - and most AIDS cases are in peaceful countries like South Africa where prevention saves lives. Yes, work to settle and prevent war.

Yes, strengthen the networks which back up women's rights. Yes, criticize abstinence only strategies. But NO, don't undercut strategies which are saving lives every day.

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