The U.S. government will spend more than half a million dollars to provide residents of a tiny, poverty-stricken African nation with condoms. The money, $700,000, will help fund a National Condom Strategy launched by the Ministry of Health in Eswatini, a landlocked south African country smaller than New Jersey. Until recently Eswatini was known as Swaziland but its tyrannical ruler, King Mswati III, changed it so the country could break with its colonial past.
Estwatini is Africa’s only absolute monarchy and most of its population of about 1.4 million lives in poverty with the world’s highest rate of AIDS and HIV. King Mswati however, leads an openly posh lifestyle and has15 wives, according to an African news report that lists all their names. The king has an annual budget of $61 million, owns two private jets and several fancy cars, including a $625,000 Rolls Royce and a $500,000 Maybach 62. He is also a renowned violator of human rights who has been blasted by various international groups over the years. Just last month Eswatini’s National Commissioner of Police announced that social media critics of the king will be hunted down and arrested. Around the same time, human rights advocates were arrested for denouncing King Mswati’s oppressive, dictator-like policies.
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ReplyDeleteHIV transmission is at the top of the list, followed by the regular list of STDs.
ReplyDeleteSomeone please explain to me why we as a bankrupt nation continue to dole out money to any/all??
ReplyDeleteI don't my tax money used like that.Whoever in our government approved that should be fined atleast 10 times his annual salary and fired.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that stops transmission of herpes and hiv IS abstinence. A condom only barely helps, if at all. If you have an std DO NOT have sex with a person who does not, thinking a condom is the fix all. You have to learn to live with the std, and protect people around you. An std does not define you. Being irresponsible does. There are things Doctors are not up to date on. In some cases condoms are so overrated. But wouldn't you like to be the company that supplies them, $$$$$. STD antiviral drug and condom manufacturers are getting filthy rich from this as with all the other sicknesses.
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ReplyDeleteIt isn’t money
It is US Dollars printed from thin air
Keep it quiet, we don’t want the natives to realize it is worthless confetti
Like they will actually use them. Their kids will be running around blowing them up like balloons.
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