Randall Tobias, the head of the US Agency for International Development and President Bush's former coordinator for global AIDS relief, has quit amid allegations he was a client of a high-priced DC call-girl ring. Tobias, 65, is married.
In announcing his resignation the State Department said on that Tobias was resigning for personal reasons.
Tobias' name was among those clients of an exclusive escort service in the capital by Deborah Jeane Palfrey. He submitted his resignation a day after being confronted by the network.
In 2003 Bush appointed Tobias as the first global AIDS coordinator. For three years he promoted abstinence over the use of condoms, and fidelity in traditional marriage, to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and was blamed for tying abstinence programs to aid to foreign countries. His agency also funneled money to faith-based groups that not only preached abstinence, faithfulness, and denounced sex between men or ignored male-on-male sex altogether in AIDS educational programs.
In 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Tobias to head USAID.
[of course, research after research showed that abstinence programs didn't work and show that Tobias programs failed miserably. Oh yes, and another wonderful example of "traditional" marriage.]
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