Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program

Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program
Monday, September 13, 2010
By Matt Cover

AIDS, HIV

The AIDS awareness symbol is used for earrings and pendants made at a counseling center in Chennai, India. (AP File Photo/M. Lakshman)

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.

The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011.

“NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications,” the grant abstract states. “We propose to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene study among men unwilling to be circumcised in Orange Farm, South Africa.”

Because AIDS researchers have been unsuccessful in convincing most adult African men to undergo circumcision, the UCLA study proposes to determine whether researchers can develop an after-sex genitalia-washing regimen that they can then convince uncircumcised African men to follow.

“The aim of the proposed feasibility study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a post-coital male genital hygiene procedure, which participants will be asked to practice immediately post-coitus or at least 12 hours after,” reads the abstract.

Entitled “Community-Based HIV VCT: South Africa,” the name of the broader umbrella project, the program plans to test how well received the penis-washing regimen is among South African men.

If most of the men in the study wash their genitals after sex, are willing to do so after the study ends, and report that their partners accept the regimen, the researchers will develop another study to see if the “penile cleansing procedure” actually works to prevent HIV infections.

“If we find that men are able to practice consistent washing practices after sex, we will plan to test whether this might protect men from becoming HIV infected in a later study,” the grant says.

The study’s lead investigator Dr. Thomas J. Coates was the fourth highest-funded researcher in the country in 2002 and is currently conducting HIV research on three continents.

CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”

Coates, who was unavailable for comment, directed CNSNews.com to ask grant-related questions of his assistant, Darya Freedman, who did not respond.

The NIMH also declined to respond to CNSNews.com’s question.,

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Comment by Sweettina2 on September 17, 2010 at 4:39pm
Thank you for the link Pamela, headed there now to read.
Comment by Pamela Ida Prince on September 17, 2010 at 2:41am
I have found what you are referring to at this website:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/kenya/091117/male-circumcision-k...
Comment by Sweettina2 on September 17, 2010 at 1:56am
AID's was designed as a weapon for genocide.
Comment by Pamela Ida Prince on September 17, 2010 at 1:53am
The 'Douch' method was a failure in preventing conception & many of the men have a sex life likened to the Apes of the Congo & do they wash? Is that where AIDS came from in the first place??
Comment by Sweettina2 on September 16, 2010 at 7:32pm
Holy crap, there's no telling WHAT they are shipping now! My mind is running rampant thinking what kind of kinky stuff the NAACP did with all that stuff. Wonder if they are behind this money in any way. I trust none of them.
Girl, no telling what you'd find in those things!
Comment by Sweettina2 on September 16, 2010 at 4:50pm
I hear you girl, its insanity! I am trying to quit cussing and they keep throwing fodder at me. Somebody should be hung for this crap.
Comment by Tara on September 16, 2010 at 4:37pm
What????? Am I reading what I think I'm reading????? We're teaching African men how to wash their uncircumcized privates to prevent HIV/AIDS and our stimulus money paid for this? Something is being stimulated but it sure ain't the economy, WTF?

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