The politics of prevention: in a nod to the conservatives who put him in office, President Bush packs his AIDS policy panel with supporters of abstinence-based sex education. (AIDS).(Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS)

From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: March 19, 2002| Author: Bull, Chris | Copyright information

Imagine a conference room somewhere in Washington, D.C. Thirty-five presidential appointees debate federal AIDS policy. Stating at each other around the table are a gang member-turned-religious conservative, a former right-wing congressman who believes that condoms don't work, a onetime beauty queen who lobbies for abstinence until marriage, openly gay conservatives, liberals who support universal sex education, and two representatives of the pharmaceutical industry.

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