{"id":181,"date":"2007-07-26T01:32:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/07\/26\/franklin-graham-video\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T21:20:36","slug":"franklin-graham-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/07\/26\/franklin-graham-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Graham video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short video of Franklin Graham, head of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, on a medical mission to treat people with HIV. Interesting to see religious groups in the field. This is from February 2007. While these groups get quite a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/02\/01\/where-have-all-the-dollars-gone\/\">criticism<\/a> as recipients of federal largesse under PEPFAR (see also this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/10\/09\/religious_right_wields_clout\">Boston Globe<\/a> piece), Samaritan&#8217;s Purse <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1058\/is_10_118\/ai_72960516\">say<\/a> they get very little money from the federal government. Most of their funds come from private donors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some more links on this, but there has been quite a lot on the capture of AIDS policy in countries like Uganda by religious groups and those opposed to condom use. I&#8217;m not sure this criticism is quite fair, in part because I think some groups are more pragmatic in the field, but also because women aren&#8217;t always in a position to demand their male partners use condoms. Abstinence, as I understand it, as part of portfolio of prevention programs may delay the first sexual experience of some young women. The broader problem is that few prevention programs seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/06\/20\/prevention-is-not-working\/\">working<\/a>. I&#8217;ll come back and hyperlink old posts on this shortly. Interestingly, a new African <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/24\/world\/africa\/24cnd-poll.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\">poll <\/a>suggested that despite high prevalence of AIDS in Africa that many people are quite optimistic about the future. Economic performance in recent years has actually been pretty good in a number of countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcVorQii6XI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/files\/2007\/07\/untitled-2.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"untitled-2.gif\" height=\"246\" width=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short video of Franklin Graham, head of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, on a medical mission to treat people with HIV. Interesting to see religious groups in the field. This is from February 2007. While these groups get quite a lot of criticism as recipients of federal largesse under PEPFAR (see also this Boston Globe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}