Gates vs. Abstinence

Bill and Melinda Gates keynoted the AIDS conference in Toronto. His speech is excerpted at the Guardian. I appreciate the way he framed Absitenence Education as a primary means of combating AIDS. That is, it is effective to a point, but falls woefully short of achieving medical and ethical objectives of saving lives:

We need to put the power to prevent HIV in the hands of women. This is true whether the woman is a faithful married mother of small children or a sex worker trying to scrape out a living in a slum. No matter where she lives or what she does, a woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life