Earlier this week, we wrote on how starting on December 1st, Mexico City is starting an HPV vaccine push on girls between 11-13. Lest Mexican viejos feel left behind, el D.F. is beginning an initiative for older men that day as well.

Beginning December 1, Mexico City plans to hand out free medicine to elderly men with erectile dysfunction, the local government said.

“Everyone has the right to be happy,” said Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, governor of the federal district that encompasses the Mexican capital.

“We have to protect people — senior citizens above all,” he said in a statement Thursday. “Many of them are abandoned and lack money. They don’t have medical services, and a society that doesn’t care for its senior citizens has no dignity.”

Now no se. Maybe I don’t know enough about elderly Mexican men pero if we are talking about them as a population that is abandoned and poor, Mexico City can’t do better than Viagra? And comparing this “health push” to the program aimed at young girls: injecting a new vaccine into the bloodstream of a still developing young woman vs. giving a viejo a pill to get a hard on, hmmm doesn’t seem quite like the same thing does it?

Via / The Latin Americanist