The White House seems to understand that the favorite solution ofWestern public health elites a "condom airlift" for thecontinent would be a medical and moral disaster. It wasprecisely this approach that was roundly rejected by UgandanPresident Yoweri Museveni. Critics of the Administration's AIDSpolicy for Africa should meditate long and hard on thatalternative.
Earlier this year, the Bush Administration persuaded Congress to authorize $15 billion over the next five years to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa and the Caribbean.