Africans Chafe Under U.S. Abstinence Provisions
RNS’s Jason Kane examines the impact of American abstinence restrictions on HIV/AIDS funding in Africa, in this week’s full-text article, linked above.
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A growing number of relief workers, activists and scholars agree, saying the abstinence approach that was pushed into law by U.S. religious conservatives has translated poorly to Africa. The Christian doctrine of abstinence, they say, is a concept that doesn’t always resonate in traditional African cultures and is therefore stalling efforts to save lives.
