Bush vs. Prostitution vs. HIV/AIDS

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Sharon L. Camp, President and CEO of the Alan Guttmacher Institute,
joined "Future Choices" in September 2005 to decry Bush administration's so-called
'anti-prostitution campaign,' which by all accounts causes far more harm than good.

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Further reading on the "anti-prostitution policy" promulgated by Bush administration
  • Anti-Prostitution Policy is struck down. Read further-->>"U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero on Tuesday [5/9/06] in New York ruled that a U.S. policy requiring recipients of federal HIV/AIDS service grants to pledge to oppose commercial sex work violates the groups' First Amendment right to free speech."
  • "The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on June 9, 2005 that the United States will require all American organizations to pledge their opposition to prostitution and sex trafficking in order to be eligible for U.S. funds to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world..." ->>Read further in "U.S. Government Denies HIV/AIDS Funds to Groups Lacking Anti-Prostitution Policy," a report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
  • "They met a year ago on the dirt road outside her aunt's house, in this struggling township where houses are built from bound-together reeds..." ->>Read further in "AIDS, Pregnancy and Poverty Trap Ever More African Girls" from June 3, 2005 New York Times.
  • The Bush administration "may have a hidden [anti-abortion] purpose..." ->>Read further in a July 2005 Kaiser Report, "Federal Requirement That AIDS Groups Sign Statement Against Sex Work Also Might Silence Them on Abortion, Editorial Says."
  • "U.S. citizens... should be embarrassed the United States is now requiring groups receiving those dollars to pledge their opposition to prostitution and sex trafficking, says a Des Moines Register editorial on July 13, 2005. ->>Read further.
  • "Although the Bush administration's pledge to spend $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide is 'admirable,' the administration's policy requiring groups receiving those funds to pledge to oppose commercial sex work and sex trafficking 'sabotages the very victims the law purports to defend,' a Houston Chronicle editorial says. ->>Read further.
  • "U.S. Regulations for Groups Receiving AIDS Funding Must Be 'Reasonable..." says Louisville Courier-Journal editorial. ->>Read further.
  • "The Bush administration's policy requiring domestic and international groups receiving U.S. funds to fight HIV/AIDS to pledge opposition to commercial sex work and sex trafficking 'harms the important work the administration is funding,' a Bangor Daily News editorial says on September 02, 2005.
  • Washington, D.C.-based DKT International, a not-for-profit organization that provides HIV/AIDS prevention services to commercial sex workers worldwide, has filed a federal lawsuit against USAID..." reports Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report on August 12, 2005. ->>Read further.
  • In Matt Steinglass's New York Times article on July 24, 2005, we gain an understanding of why Brazil has rejected $40 million of much needed U.S. to fight HIV/AIDS. ->>Read further.


Brief Bio for Sharon Camp

Sharon L. Camp is President and CEO of The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the leading policy research organization in the field of sexual and reproductive health.

* Prior to joining AGI, Dr. Camp was President and CEO of Women’s Capital Corporation, a start-up company responsible for the development and commercialization of Plan B Emergency Contraception.
* For many years the leading spokesperson in Washington, DC for international family planning programs, she was also largely responsible for bringing together the highly successful International Consortium for Emergency Contraception and served until April 1998 as its Coordinator.

* From 1975 to 1993, Dr. Camp was Senior Vice President of Population Action International managing PAI’s professional staff involved in lobbying, media liaison, policy research and publications.
* She is a widely quoted authority on the national and international politics of contraception, a popular public speaker, and the author or co-author of more than 70 publications on family planning and related subjects, including articles on emergency contraception.
* Dr. Camp has chaired the boards of Family Health International, the National Council for International Health and the International Center for Research on Women and was founding chair of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, sponsor of the Emergency Contraceptive Hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE).
* She has served as an elected director of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), AVSC International (now known as EngenderHealth), Management Sciences for Health and Population Action International.
* Dr. Camp is an honors graduate of Pomona College and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

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