A new study suggests the United States is hurting the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus with its anti-prostitution rule.
In order to receive U.S. funding for HIV prevention or control projects, recipient organizations must take a pledge that explicitly condemns prostitution. However, researchers have determined such condemnation is not effective at helping to control the global HIV epidemic.
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This is not responsible journalism. No space is given to a response from the Administration, let alone other parties that may have a different perspective on the issue. The reader is not presented with or explanation justification of the anti-prostitution rule.
The article raises an important topic but is too cursory to be useful. It fails to identify sources of "US funding" for HIV prevention that require condemning of prostitution by grant recipients. Therefore the claim is hard to verify. Is there a further requirement that commercial sex workers be denied outreach services for HIV prevention? After all, one could both condemn and provide condoms.
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