For those of you who have been involved in the HIV Prevention/Sex education issue, and fighting the monster at the state and local levels... here's something I just discovered.
I'm probably way behind many of you, but I thought I would share this for those who may be able to use it or have more information.
The pro-condom, pro-homosexuality, pro-abortion folks at CDC and elsewhere in our public health community are incredibly clever, it seems. In Ohio several years ago, conservatives objected to the use of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) endorsed sex ed curricula directed to youth that were explicit, oriented toward condom use, and either minimized abstinence or mocked it (remember "Reducing the Risk"?).
These CDC-recommended curricula were called "Programs that Work." And in Ohio, hard-working conservatives were able to get these de-funded in the annual state budget. (I'm simplifying this, but that's basically how it went.)
Well, I am now looking at the grant request from the Ohio Department of Health to the CDC for 2005 and guess what? The CDC has just changed the package name of these same condom-based curricula, from "Programs that Work" to "Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions." The "interventions" for the Youth audience are the same old, same old curricula---- "Reducing the Risk," "Be Proud, Be Responsible" "Becoming a Responsible Teen," and some others, like "Focus on Kids."
You can see them listed on this page
Am I missing something, or have we been had?
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