Scary Stuff

HIV infection has feverishly grown in Europe and Central Asia from 30,000 reported cases in 1998 to more than 1.5 million.

I'm seriously concerned that the cutbacks and changes in education in this country through "abstinence only" training rather than broad sex education and issues in public health could lead to a grave rise in the new infection rate here as well.

Hey, I'm all for abstinence. I tend to believe the more mature someone is before he or she becomes sexually active, the better. But we need well educated young people, who appreciate the risks and understand what to do if they fall off the abstinence wagon.