Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle...

A government is determined to do something productive to promote safe sex!

Of course it's not the Americans, because, uh, if you repeat it enough times to yourself and sleep with your PJs inside out, American teens believe in abstinence until marriage. Really.

But Brazil realizes that teenagers may in fact have sex. It's better for them to have sex with a condom than without, as condoms help prevent all sorts of unpleasant things, such as pregnancy at the age of 15 and AIDS and herpes and hepatitis and whatnot.

Brazil, apparently, is doing pretty damn well on the AIDS fight. Their infection rate, according to the CIA World Factbook, is 0.7%. Ours in the US is 0.6%. Consider that there's a proven link between poverty (ie, people who can't afford education/doctors/condoms) and AIDS infection it's pretty impressive. 31% of Brazilians (same source) live below the poverty line; 12% of Americans do. That there's a 0.1% difference in AIDS infection rate tells me that either A) Brazil is doing something right, B) America is doing something wrong, or C) Both A and B.