ARTICLE> The United States Government Censorship of Health Information

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 09:00:00 -0500
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 02:37:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

AIDS has reached and crossed crisis proportions in many of the world's
countries, and other sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise. Yet
the suppression of health information and a focus on abstaining from sex
are the preached doctrines of the current administration in Washington,
and it is not surprising in such an environment that there is pressure
throughout the executive branch in agencies that have health
responsibilities, that have forced sex education initiatives into
retreat in those health related executive agencies.

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Sex, Lies and Abstinence
By Jennifer Block, Conscience
April 29, 2003
Alternet.org
<http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15744>

The US government's strategy for disease prevention was hardly in tune
with the philosophy that has taken root around the world  and so
masterfully expressed by the Brits: Give people accurate, comprehensive
information and services, and they are more likely to stay healthy.
Instead of finding similarly clever ways to disseminate such information
to the American public, the Bush administration was actively trying to
censor it.

The most blatant attack was the severe gutting of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) fact sheet on condoms, which had been
disappeared from the website in July 2001 and replaced, with significant
battle scars, in December 2002.

<snip>

Revising the CDC website is just one of the many ways the Bush
administration has sought to distort and suppress scientific inquiry, not
to mention sound public health policy, that contradicts its so-called
family values.

<snip>

This agenda is so ruthless that members of several domestic sexual and
reproductive rights and health organizations speak of a pervasive "climate
of fear" created by the Bush administration; a climate in which entities
on various levels, from non-governmental HIV/AIDS prevention groups to
high schools and even epidemiologists at the CDC, are being pressured to
toe the party line.

"It's really remarkable," says Mariann Wang, an attorney at the American
Civil Liberties Union. "They're really doing everything in their power, on
every front, to keep people's mouths shut.

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The complete and extensive article may be read at the URL above.


Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
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Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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ARTICLE> The United States Government Censorship of Health Information

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