Friday, December 30, 2005

The Bill Gates Foundation, which is the largest in the world now, was looking for some facts on which to predicate a program to help reduce the incidence of AIDS. So we did a lot of background work with the most highly trained experts in the world on the basic causes of AIDS and what could be done to reduce the incidence and the affliction of AIDS.

And we learned a lot. And obviously one of the main things we learned was that there was an ABC policy that really worked. Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. And the countries that faced the issues frankly with those three issues were very successful.

One of the prime successes was in Uganda where they had started out with 13 percent affliction of AIDS among their people, which is very high. And because of an emphasis on the use of condoms, and education, they had reduced it down to six percent. Unfortunately, lately that trend has reversed.

And-- there was an article in THE ECONOMIST magazine that showed that Uganda was now goin' in the other direction because the United States government has put tremendous pressure on the leaders of Uganda not to distribute condoms anymore.

- President Jimmy Carter

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