Health advocates and students were arrested outside the White House today during a protest right before World Aids Day, according to The Washington Post.

 Demonstrators said the Bush administration’s response to the spread of AIDS has been ineffective. They called for increased funding and an end to abstinence-only sex education requirements for U.S.-funded HIV and AIDS programs internationally. They said the disease also has been largely ignored at home in the nation’s capital, which has the country’s worst rate of infection.

AVERT, an international AIDS charity, has a Web page devoted to the relationship between HIV infection rates and sex education.

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