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GAO report: global AIDS law's 'abstinence-until-marriage' earmark shortchanges other key prevention strategies.(Government Accountability Office)

Publication: The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress dated April 4 details the negative effects of the legal requirement that at least one-third of all prevention funds appropriated under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) be reserved for programs. The report that...

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..."abstinence-until-marriage" concludes siphoning off funds for these activities has forced some PEPFAR country teams to reduce the funding they otherwise would have provided to other key prevention interventions. Negatively affected programs include those to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS during pregnancy and childbirth, to promote comprehensive messages aimed at preventing the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS, and to support prevention programs aimed at HIV-positive...

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