New CDC Guidlines
Aug. 10th, 2004 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omimouseThank you very much for the heads up, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twistedchick
Enraged does not do justice to how I feel at this moment. My hands are shaking, my head is pounding, and I am quite literally seeing the world through a haze of red.
Here's the LA Weekly article. And here's the page with the new CDC guidlines.
The long and short of it?
"These new regs require the censoring of any “content” — including “pamphlets, brochures, fliers, curricula,” “audiovisual materials” and “pictorials (for example, posters and similar educational materials using photographs, slides, drawings or paintings),” as well as “advertising” and Web-based info. They require all such “content” to eliminate anything even vaguely “sexually suggestive” or “obscene” — like teaching how to use a condom correctly by putting it on a dildo, or even a cucumber. And they demand that all such materials include information on the “lack of effectiveness of condom use” in preventing the spread of HIV and other STDs — in other words, the Bush administration wants AIDS fighters to tell people: Condoms don’t work. This demented exigency flies in the face of every competent medical body’s judgment that, in the absence of an HIV-preventing vaccine, the condom is the single most effective tool available to protect someone from getting or spreading the AIDS virus.
Moreover, the CDC will now take the decisions on which AIDS-fighting educational materials actually work away from those on the frontlines of the combat against the epidemic, and hand them over to political appointees."
The deadline for public comment on the new rules is August 16. Email your comments to HIVComments@cdc.gov or fax them to 404-639-3125.)
I've already sent my comment in, and am now searching for pen and paper. That, and asked Bear-cub to please tell us when her school covers Sex-Ed, so that the family can fill in the gaps on that front. She's already been told the basics, but I want to make sure that safe sex is something engraved onto her neurons by the time she becomes sexually active.
Anger is a very mild way indeed to describe my current feelings.
twistedchickEnraged does not do justice to how I feel at this moment. My hands are shaking, my head is pounding, and I am quite literally seeing the world through a haze of red.
Here's the LA Weekly article. And here's the page with the new CDC guidlines.
The long and short of it?
"These new regs require the censoring of any “content” — including “pamphlets, brochures, fliers, curricula,” “audiovisual materials” and “pictorials (for example, posters and similar educational materials using photographs, slides, drawings or paintings),” as well as “advertising” and Web-based info. They require all such “content” to eliminate anything even vaguely “sexually suggestive” or “obscene” — like teaching how to use a condom correctly by putting it on a dildo, or even a cucumber. And they demand that all such materials include information on the “lack of effectiveness of condom use” in preventing the spread of HIV and other STDs — in other words, the Bush administration wants AIDS fighters to tell people: Condoms don’t work. This demented exigency flies in the face of every competent medical body’s judgment that, in the absence of an HIV-preventing vaccine, the condom is the single most effective tool available to protect someone from getting or spreading the AIDS virus.
Moreover, the CDC will now take the decisions on which AIDS-fighting educational materials actually work away from those on the frontlines of the combat against the epidemic, and hand them over to political appointees."
The deadline for public comment on the new rules is August 16. Email your comments to HIVComments@cdc.gov or fax them to 404-639-3125.)
I've already sent my comment in, and am now searching for pen and paper. That, and asked Bear-cub to please tell us when her school covers Sex-Ed, so that the family can fill in the gaps on that front. She's already been told the basics, but I want to make sure that safe sex is something engraved onto her neurons by the time she becomes sexually active.
Anger is a very mild way indeed to describe my current feelings.
