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April 27, 2008
Africans to Be Paid Not to Contract STDs
File this one under Your Tax Dollar at Work:
Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of Aids.
The $1.8m trial — to be launched this year — will counsel 3,000 men and women aged 15-30 in southern rural Tanzania over three years, paying them on condition that periodic laboratory test results prove they have not contracted sexually transmitted infections.
The payments will amount to three months' wages for some participants.
You would think not contracting AIDS would be its own reward. Next we'll be paying Africans not to step on nails.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 27, 2008 11:20 AM
Comments
Gee. I wonder if that would work in San Fransisco? After all, there is an unlimited supply of tax money.
Posted by: Dwaine at April 27, 2008 8:43 PM
