[Am-info] Gates Op-ed in Sunday's NYT

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.11.09 10:45 AM, Stuart J. Hysom typed: ============

>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in India this week to make a 
>long-term commitment to Indian partners for a major new prevention 
>initiative aimed at mobile populations. The initiative will focus on 
>proven prevention strategies, such as voluntary counseling and testing, 
>condom distribution, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases as 
>well as public education programs to reduce the fear and stigma of AIDS.

     Bill is supposedly the smartest man on earth, but he doesn't mention 
abstinance. Condoms are almost as failure-prone as Microsoft's own 
products. Microsoft is using the B&MGF to prop up its public image, but 
so far I've seen it do nothing that would get my support. Promoting 
condom distribution and abortion in 3rd world countries while giving 
strings-attached computer software to rural libraries (who are required 
to match every donation) is not going to do anything for anybody. it's 
obvious that they're only trying to get the liberals on their side.




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