US Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Prostitution Pledge for AIDS Charities Maggie Fox - NBC News
go to original June 21, 2013

Charities trying to fight AIDS overseas don’t have to say they oppose prostitution or human trafficking to get federal funds, and the federal government has no right to tell them to, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The court struck down a George W. Bush-era law that required non-profit groups to sign on to the anti-prostitution policy if they wanted aid money.

“The anti-prostitution pledge was a major barrier for many organizations providing essential health programs and important resources for this population, and we hope that this decision will spur real progress toward ending the epidemic,” said Chris Collins, director of public policy for amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research .

The aid groups argued that sex workers were often the very people they needed to target to take on the deadly and incurable virus.

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