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My gosh.....
Are you that obsessive over your hate of Bush that you have to say something about him every time you post? This topic has nothing to do with him or politics yet you must talk about him!
Its pathetic and sickening how some people can't forget about politics and stop pushing their agenda.
I am sorry that you do not see the connection.
The topic is faith-based approaches to medicine as opposed to evidence-based approaches.
Both the family in this article and the President of the United States have caused harm by blindly holding on to faith-based approaches that have been conclusively shown to be ineffective.
Indeed! PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) requires that 1/3 of the budget go toward abstinence-only programs.
From http://www.healthgap.org/camp/pepfar.html:
"Some 32 million quality-approved condoms remain impounded in government warehouses while the U.S. government ramps up financing for abstinence-only approaches to HIV prevention. According to Ugandan AIDS activists, the government's actions will undermine community efforts to reduce HIV prevalence and HIV transmission. These trends away from scientifically sound, evidence-based prevention strategies are occurring in Uganda and in other countries hard-hit by the AIDS epidemic, such as Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia."