Comments on: Online campaigns to combat spread of HIV/AIDS http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/online-campaigns-to-combat-spread-of-hivaids/ A social platform for raising global issues and finding solutions Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:12:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Drew http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/online-campaigns-to-combat-spread-of-hivaids/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Drew Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:01 +0000 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=526#comment-347 I am sorely disappointed that the United Nations Population Fund pulled out of an effort to curb the AIDS epidemic by international sex education guidelines, as reported by the NY Times today, Sept 3 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/world/03unesco.html As a previous contributor to UNESCO education efforts myself, I firmly believe that education is the only way of improving health and wealth in the developing world. Unfortunately, your actions belie your own assertions that you are doing everything to fight HIV/AIDS. Instead, it appears that you are bowing down to religious interests, content with treating the illness once it has befallen the uneducated. I am sorely disappointed that the United Nations Population Fund pulled out of an effort to curb the AIDS epidemic by international sex education guidelines, as reported by the NY Times today, Sept 3 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/world/03unesco.html

As a previous contributor to UNESCO education efforts myself, I firmly believe that education is the only way of improving health and wealth in the developing world.

Unfortunately, your actions belie your own assertions that you are doing everything to fight HIV/AIDS. Instead, it appears that you are bowing down to religious interests, content with treating the illness once it has befallen the uneducated.

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