Funding for abstinence and faithfulness programs under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) increasingly replaced comprehensive HIV prevention in fiscal years 2004 and 2005, and the U.S. is sending fewer condoms abroad today than in 1990. Shifts in prevention policy are especially acute in sub-Saharan Africa, the region hardest hit by the HIV epidemic.
Read more about our critique of the U.S. Global AIDS Strategy and our investigations on the ground in Africa in the 24 July issue of the British Medical Journal
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