Comments on: Clinton Condemns Criminalization of Homosexuality http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/12/01/17027 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: George Bingham http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/12/01/17027/comment-page-1#comment-55673 George Bingham Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:18:25 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=17027#comment-55673 It's a difficult problem regarding the US funding for Uganda - I don't think withholding the funding would be the right thing to do because the people who would suffer most would be the one's who's health care is already under attack - but at the same time, I also am not naive, and I know that only a relatively small amount of foreign aid benefits those it's really intended for - the rest tied up in graft and political corruption. I wish we could try withholding funding to their government, while still supplying services directly to the country's populations that need it. Of course, I don't know how that could be made to work! It’s a difficult problem regarding the US funding for Uganda – I don’t think withholding the funding would be the right thing to do because the people who would suffer most would be the one’s who’s health care is already under attack – but at the same time, I also am not naive, and I know that only a relatively small amount of foreign aid benefits those it’s really intended for – the rest tied up in graft and political corruption.

I wish we could try withholding funding to their government, while still supplying services directly to the country’s populations that need it. Of course, I don’t know how that could be made to work!

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