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HIV/AIDS MONTH QUOTE 13

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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

"Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither… Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause." - Nicholas D. Kristof

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