NYTimes -- The Secret War on Condoms

Over the last few years conservative groups in President Bush's support base have declared war on condoms, in a campaign that is downright weird — but that, if successful, could lead to millions of deaths from AIDS around the world.

One study by the University of California at Berkeley found condom distribution to be astonishingly cost-effective, costing just $3.50 per year of life saved.

Yet the U.S. is now donating only 300 million condoms annually, down from about 800 million at the end of the first President Bush's term.

A report by Human Rights Watch quotes a Texas school official as saying: "We don't discuss condom use, except to say that condoms don't work."

This is crazy but true.