Lack of funds and misused thereof are the two main causes of a failing HIV prevention. As noted by Emily Geminder, HIV prevention does not attract as much financial attention as a quest for an HIV treatment, and when funds are committed to prevention, they end up financing interventions that are more dogmatic than evidence-based and whose results are hardly quantifiable and rarely quantified.
This USAID-sponsored poster promoting abstinence in Zambia as part of an HIV prevention campaign is a good illustration of what William Easterly describes as “the native people …

Calendario Romano 2009.
The calendar can be bought here 10% of proceeds go to The Food Chain a registered charity supported by peripheries.

The Roman Catholic Church has issued guidance for future priests to have psychological test aiming at preventing “tragic situations” (read “sexual abuse by priest”) caused by what the Church calls psychological defects.
According to the BBC, “The guidance says the voluntary tests should also aim to vet for those with ‘deep-seated homosexual tendencies’ ”. The advice also stipulates priests must have a “positive and stable sense of one’s masculine identity”.
There …