What 60 Minutes Missed in Uganda AIDS Story

hopefully we will see an end soon..."jesus the white" will come back and he will be riding a horse and swinging a sword killing all the gays and free thinkers and orcs and trolls and saurons reign will end...so just sit back close your eyes close your mind and start to believe in something you dont know anything about because it comforts your fear...HAPPY EASTER GANGSTERZZZZZZZ!

I often wondered about the actual medications given to Africa. I saw two pills? Isn't it a cocktail that HIV/AIDS victims receive to benefit them the most? If only two medications are used is that the full regimen that the Worlds Aids Doctors recommends? Or are they just happy to be receiving any medications?

Do the doctors receive any training at all on prescribing the medications? I am questioning the efficacy of these drugs if not given properly.

I've always wondered exactly who were the recipients of George Bush's biggest last minute giveaway (next to Halliburton, that is.)
Next bit of free time (ha!) I'll have to immerse myself in US AID grant documents. Call me silly, but I have the strange unshakable suspicion that a lot of obscurely connected fundamentalist Christian groups got on this money teat.
Anyone out there familiar with how this actually went down in Africa?

Is it really true that the anti-gay bill would have same sex partners executed?

He is Cristian and anti gay? Shocker

It seem that if the 60 Minutes correspondent took the time to interview Pastor Ssempa he should have asked him about the anti-gay bill. It would not have been any more of a "sidetrack" because he was already being interviewed about how his country and their government is dealing with the large number of people with AIDS and the proposal to jail and possibly kill people with HIV/AIDS who may or may not actually be gay is a part of the government's plans or discussions on how to deal with it.

That and if Uganda does pass this legislation and decides to kill people for being gay--and also takes money from PEPFAR which I am guessing contains some tax payer money--then including a discussion about this proposed legislation is just as relevant as Mr. Stupak being interviewed about his position that tax payer money should not be allowed to fund abortions and covering how he essentially coerced President Obama into signing an executive order to that end in exchange for his vote was to the health care reform debate here in the United States.

the video is on a policy set in place to stop the spread of AIDS. it sidetracks to interview the well known pastor and his opinion on youngsters getting knowledge of AIDS. it would be another degree of sidetracking to mention the pastors involvement in anti-gay legislation. a video on U.S. policy helping Uganda AIDS prevention that includes information on a Ugandan Pastor's efforts for criminalizing homosexuality would seem to slant the plot. as interrelated as they may be, you can't cover everything. i'm not arguing based on importance. i'm arguing based on related material.

Now, if the video were on "Battling AIDS in Uganda", then you'd have a point about missing information, but the video is about American taxpayers and PEPFAR's successes.

yea but you have to realize that gay people are probably still the biggest group being made responsible for spreading AIDS not only in uganda but in most parts of the world. therefore asking him about his stand relating to the bill would have been valid. the church is using the aids issue to try and discriminate against gay people (again not just in uganda).

Maybe they didn't touch on it because this story was about AIDS and the benefit of PEPFAR in Ugandan communities. They only have about 15 minutes to get the full story in, sidetracking to different issues might not have been in the best interest of 60 Minutes.