World Bank Promotes "Reverse Prostitution"
In an effort to combat HIV/AIDS in Tanzania the World Bank in collaboration with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Population Reference Bureau and the Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund, are offering cash to Tanzanian to stop them from having sex!The designers of the Tanzanian programme believe that payments of $45 when combined with careful counselling could play an important role in reducing HIV infection, especially for vulnerable young women.
The study will be conducted by the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre in Tanzania, in conjunction with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco and the World Bank.
The Tanzanian trial programme, which is still subject to fine-tuning and ethical approval, will not specifically test for HIV, which is costly and already widely conducted in the country. It will use proxies including gonorrhoea, and guarantees any participant found to be infected receives state treatment.
So there is a need for us to get this one right... It is an anti-HIV/AIDS programme, that doesn't test for HIV? An interesting notion I guess...
Italics taken from here
posted by Mark @ 7:19 PM
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