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

FORBIDDEN VACCINE; Better Dead

Every year, about 500,000 women throughout the world develop cervical cancer. In the United States alone, the disease kills about 3,700 women annually. This year, scientists developed a vaccine against human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that is the primary cause of cervical cancer. The vaccine produced 100 percent immunity in the 6,000 women who received it as part of a multinational trial. As soon as the vaccine is licensed, some health officials say, it should be administered to all girls at age 12. But the Family Research Council and other social conservative groups vowed to fight that plan, even though it could virtually eliminate cervical cancer. Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease, they say, would reduce their incentive to abstain from premarital sex. - William Falk is the editor in chief of The Week magazine.