The schools eliminated three-quarters of the budget for abstinence-only education, which had previously received the majority of funding. Fierce policy debates on the issues of homosexuals, sex workers, and injection drug users and also provides sexual education in schools and the feasibility of basing HIV prevention policies on good morals. However, some leaders turned a blind eye to the impact of AIDS on the society and blocked progress willingly (Rubin 2016). AIDS crisis intensifies the struggle over the homosexuality issue. The demand for public recognition and legitimacy has become an issue of life and death due to recognition and legitimacy comes with the ability to credibly argue for both government spending and sympathy for medical research and health care. Culture also recognizes this as well. A few incidents are likely to suggest that the culture wars in America over certain traditional issues as homosexuality and abortion have not come they come to an end and that they can block further involvements with HIV/AIDS at home. For instance, AIDS activist Jerry Thacker withdrew his nominations to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS due to been charged by gay rights groups with calling homosexuality "a deathstyle" and aids "a gay plague" which came to turn to be …show more content…
There are resolutions such as the United Nations General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was made as the right elements came together. The pledges still stand, though the political environment continues to change. If we had today's level of leadership, levels of funding for AIDS, we would not be where we are now. International Conference on Population and Development revealed in the years following 1994. In 1994, the political environment allowed for a paradigm of reproductive health and rights. The action that came from this program during the conference has been limited by political realities in countries, advice to those working on