Your Tax Dollars At Work . . . in Tajikistan
Dan Joseph reports in CNSNews.com today that the “U.S. has spent $1.39 million on study surveying married Tajik migrant workers in Moscow, and interviewing some of them, their wives, girlfriends and prostitutes.” Joseph further writes:
“According to the description of the study on the NIH Web site, the research was developed in order to address “the major global health problem of HIV prevention amongst married male labor migrants in Central Asia and the public health risk for an AIDS epidemic in Tajikistan.”
“The study focuses on married men from Tajikistan working in Moscow and their risks for acquiring HIV through having sex with female sex workers and then transmitting the infection to their wives or female sexual partners,” the description said.”
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“According to the CIA factbook, as of 2007 only 0.3 percent of the 7 million people in Tajikistan--a predominantly Muslim nation in Cetral Asia near Afghanistan and Pakistan--had contracted HIV/AIDS, compared with 0.6 percent of the population of the United States.”
Just spending money that then has to be borrowed overseas. Sheesh!