Despite U.S. Efforts, Ugandans Still Like Sex

A new study suggests that Uganda—long the darling of abstinence-only cheerleaders—isn't getting much out of the Bush administration's insistence on pairing HIV/AIDS funding with abstinence-only lessons. President Bush's plan to fight HIV/AIDS abroad, PEPFAR, will dole out $15 billion to 15 countries over five years, but the plan mandates that a third of that money must go toward abstinence-until-marriage efforts. Uganda is usually trotted out as evidence that this might be a good plan.

In other bad news for friends of abstinence, MTV comes to Africa this week.