The short answer: No.

Over the weekend, Rod 2.0 updated the growing international backlash against Uganda’s latest and most extreme, anti-gay proposal: The proposed offense of “aggravated homosexuality” where an HIV-positive gay men has sex with another man. The penalty would be death. The prime ministers of Britain and Canada have formally protested the proposal.

Last year, the small East African nation received some $287 million in funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Several members of Congress, including Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), want the Obama Administration to withhold funding for AIDS programs in Uganda unless legislators abandon the extreme legislation. Sorry but we don’t tell countries how to legislate, PEPFAR Chief Coordinator Eric Goosby tells Newsweek.

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