would patronize an escort service while he was denying funding to organizations who want to help prostitutes, and supporting a policy that obviously forbids fraternizing with prostitutes," said Jodi Jacobson, executive director for the Center for Health and Gender Equity, Washington, D.C. The Bush administration's policy, said Jacobson and others, has led to the closure of numerous programs that had been teaching job skills to sex workers, forcing many prostitutes out of brothels and into the street. Advocacy of abstinence over condom usage and 'safe sex' In his capacity as Director of Foreign Assistance, Tobias encouraged sexual abstinence, and discounted the use of condoms, in preventing HIV/AIDS. "Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective," Tobias told a news conference in Berlin on April 21, 2004. Later, in March 2005, Tobias told PBS' Frontline: See also List of U.S. executive branch 'czars' List of federal political sex scandals in the United States References External links OPIC biography. Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns, ABC News, April 27, 2007. } 1942 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States ConocoPhillips people Duke University alumni George W. Bush administration personnel Presidents of Eli Lilly and Company Administrators of the United States Agency for International Development People from Remington, Indiana