Now I get it.....
duh......if we don’t give away millions of latex items that might not work anyway, we’re condemning millions of people to death and wasting money to boot.

"The Bush administration position basically condemns people to death by H.I.V./AIDS," said Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women's Health Coalition. "And we're talking about tens of millions of people."

Evangelical groups do superb work in Africa, running clinics for some of the world's most wretched people — like poor AIDS victims. So it's baffling to see these same groups buying into junk science in ways that will lead to many more AIDS deaths.

(The scientific consensus is simple: Condoms are far from perfect, but they greatly reduce the risk of H.I.V. and of gonorrhea for men, and they probably also reduce the risk of other sexual infections — but more studies are needed to prove the case definitively. See, for example, the National Institutes for Health report at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/ stds/condomreport.pdf.)

One study by the University of California at Berkeley found condom distribution to be astonishingly cost-effective, costing just $3.50 per year of life saved. In contrast, antiretroviral therapy cost almost $1,050.

So now it’s about the money, right? It’s easier to give away $3.50 worth of latex rather than educate people on the consequences of their bahavior and/or treat the sick.

The is no Secret War on Condoms. If there were, I’d be knocking over point of purchase displays while waiting for my prescriptions.........or hanging around the ‘family planning’ department of the supermarket with a hat pin.