The Heritage Foundation critique also argued that AIDS is primarily a “lifestyle disease” and so “should be suppressed through education, moral suasion and legal sanctions” rather than medication.
The most dangerous thing a woman there could do, it was said then, was to get married.
If American conservatives want to fight AIDS with finger wagging instead of antiretrovirals, those women will again be at great risk.
Only 40 percent of Republicans say that the benefits of Covid vaccines outweigh the risks (which is why research suggests that Covid may have disproportionately killed Republicans).
The denunciations of PEPFAR horrify the Republican Party’s grown-ups, who recognize how important the program has been.
Persons:
Biden, PEPFAR
Organizations:
Foundation, Zambian
Locations:
sanctimony, U.S