Are prevention programs falling prey to political pressure?
AIDS advocates and clinicians express alarm about an investigation that has been launched targeting all federally funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs. The Department of Health and Human Services intends to assess the programs' materials to make certain they adhere to 1992 requirements of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Critics say these programs already are thoroughly reviewed by local program review panels that assess content according to community obscenity standards and that the federal government should not second-guess their decisions. Meanwhile, the investigation has already resulted in one state turning down an HIV/AIDS prevention project until it's given a green light by the feds.
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