{"id":92,"date":"2006-03-06T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/06\/the-second-global-gag-rules-impli"},"modified":"2006-03-06T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T21:15:15","slug":"the-second-global-gag-rules-implications-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/06\/the-second-global-gag-rules-implications-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"The second global gag rule&#8217;s implications for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a170'><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">As reported on CNN-IBN (6 Mar 2006, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/article.php?id=6380&amp;section_id=3\">US gag rule hits India&#8217;s AIDS fight<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"10px 0px 10px 40px;\">In 2003, the US passed the Global AIDS<br \/>\nAct, but it came with a rider that stops funds from going to any NGO<br \/>\nthat did not sign an anti-prostitution pledge, which states<br \/>\nspecifically that they will not work for the empowerment sex workers. A<br \/>\nsore point in NGO circles, this order has almost derailed the fight<br \/>\nagainst HIV\/AIDS. More so in a country like India where sex workers are<br \/>\nconsidered the single-most high-risk group in the fight against AIDS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"10px 0px 10px 40px;\">\n<p style=\"10px 0px 10px 40px;\">As per the order, any NGO that refuses to<br \/>\nsign the pledge doesn&#8217;t receive USAID funds. Last month, SANGRAM, an<br \/>\nNGO in Maharashtra, refused to sign this loyalty oath. Interestingly,<br \/>\nthis coincided with raids on some brothels in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported on CNN-IBN (6 Mar 2006, &#8220;US gag rule hits India&#8217;s AIDS fight&#8220;) In 2003, the US passed the Global AIDS Act, but it came with a rider that stops funds from going to any NGO that did not sign an anti-prostitution pledge, which states specifically that they will not work for the empowerment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","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\/92","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}