Bush's AIDS plan criticised for emphasising abstinence and forbidding condoms

Could Condoms Stop the AIDS Epidemic?

Although therapeutic treatment strategies appear promising for retarding the progression of HIV-related diseases, prevention remains the most effective strategy against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This paper focuses on the effect of condom use as a single-strategy approach in HIV prevention in the absence of any treatment. There are two primary factors in the use of condoms to halt the HIV/AIDS epid...

Forbidding Sets and Normal Forms for Language Forbidding-Enforcing Systems

This paper investigates ways to reduce redundancy in forbidding sets for language forbidding-enforcing systems. A language forbidding set disallows combinations of subwords in a word, while permitting the presence of some parts of these combinations. Since a forbidding set is a potentially infinite set of finite sets of words, finding normal forms for forbidding sets is interesting from a combi...

Was the “ABC” Approach (Abstinence, Being Faithful, Using Condoms) Responsible for Uganda's Decline in HIV?

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Uganda is one of the few African countries where rates of HIV infection have fallen, from about 15 percent in the early 1990s to about five percent in 2001. At the end of 2005, UNAIDS estimated that 6.7 percent of adults were infected with the virus. The reasons behind Uganda's success have been intensely studied in the hope that other countries can emulate the strategi...

Hospital criticised for not obtaining proper consent

1291 BMJ VOLUME 320 13 MAY 2000 bmj.com Tighter controls on clinical research in the NHS are to be introduced by the government in response to a highly critical review of a study carried out at North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust. The review has raised serious concerns over the issue of consent for a trial on neonates with respiratory failure run by Professor David Southall, consultant paedi...

Does 'CNN' (condoms, needles and negotiation) work better than 'ABC' (abstinence, being faithful and condom use) in attacking the AIDS epidemic?