Brazil stands up to USA

[purpletigron]

'Brazil has turned down USA$40 million of HIV grants from the U.S. because of a Bush administration requirement that organizations must pledge to oppose commercial sex work in order to qualify for funding. Brazil's AIDS program, considered a model by many around the world, cannot be successful "with principles that are Manichean, theological, fundamentalist and Shi'ite," said a top Brazilian official.'
From: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation* via Oneworld.Net**.

* A USA 'non-profit, private operating, independent' organisation which aims to provide health care information to policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.

** OneWorld International Foundation 'works globally for fair, sustainable resource distribution, human rights and democracy'.

Comments

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

It is very, VERY rarely you will catch me saying this but Good For Brazil! Nice one with the Shi'ite reference too! That works on assorted homonymic levels.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if all the homonymic levels resonate in non-British English, but ... yes :-)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Another good thing about Brazil ... (http://www.countercurrents.org/glo-hernandez60903.htm), and then there's Fairtrade Brazil nuts* too (http://www.traidcraftshop.co.uk/products/detail.asp?productCode=36318&ref=special) :-)

* which should clearly be marked 'Packaged in the UK'...

[artela.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Well done Brazil.
Don't let them buy off your principles!

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Heh.... Not that this will get broadcast on US news stations...

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

*chortle* Not only admiring the Shi'ite reference but I think working in the Manichean one was pretty darn classy!

I notice that Avedon Carol's The Sideshow has a BBC story link of the same development, but without that lovely quote. I'm going to fire off an email to her, if I can find that same quote you use...

Crazy(after I get back from choir, that is)Soph

Here is the full quote, and the URL explicitly

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=29729

"We can't control (the disease) with principles that are Manichean, theological, fundamentalist and Shiite," Pedro Chequer, director of Brazil's AIDS program and chair of the national commission that decided to refuse the grants, said, adding that the commission -- which includes cabinet ministers, scientists and AIDS advocates -- viewed the Bush administration policy as "interference that harms the Brazilian policy regarding diversity, ethical principles and human rights."

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Calling Bush's Views Manichean Is an Insult to the Manicheans (http://hnn.us/articles/7202.html)

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Whoa, good finds, both. But I'm still cheered by the appearance of "Manichean", even if the author protests its use.

Crazy(and stubborn)Soph

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Back again! Fresh from The Sideshow, where Avedon put those links you'd found for me. I did point her in this direction, promise! I tried to give credit where credit is due... ah well, she even posted the article about how it's insulting to the Manicheans. *wry grin*

Crazy(but having a happy 'cause I got a mention - I'm entirely too addicted to external affirmation, eh?)Soph