“Pastor of Muppets:
It’s also amazing that the “sanctity of life” crowd has no problem with the pope telling the world that condoms are not effective in preventing AIDS.
How many innocent people do you think are going to die from AIDS this year because they’ve been instructed not to use condoms? How much you want to bet it outnumbers abortions?”
I hate to inform you and you flock of your faulty logic, but a report commissioned by the UN – and promptly buried – stated that condoms in Africa have no effect. In fact, they have given people the impression that they are ‘bullet-proof’ when it comes to promiscuous sex and may actually INCREASE AIDS.
n 2003 Dr Hearst and his research assistant Sanny Chen, then of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, carried out an extensive literature review commissioned by UNAids on the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of HIV virus in sub Saharan Africa and other developing regions. I quote –
“The initial report, titled: Condoms for Aids prevention in the developing world: A review of the scientific literature, concluded that although condoms were about 80 per cent to 90 per cent effective as a public health strategy in halting the spread of Aids in some concentrated epidemics (epidemics affecting men who have sex with men, injecting drug users and commercial sex workers) in places like Thailand and Cambodia, condoms were seen as ineffective in preventing the spread of HIV/Aids in generalised epidemics like those taking place in Eastern and Southern Africa.” -http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/525956/-/view/printVersion/-/8jl790z/-/index.html
Note the last sentence there, please.
In fact, Uganda USED to have a proven strategy that placed Abstinence as the first line of defense under their ABC program. In fact, it was so successful, India adopted a similar program. In 2002 or so, the UNAIDS apparatus went whole-hog on condoms, dumping enough so that some nations actually boasted that they had seven condoms for every man – oh boy. Uganda was coerced to ditch the abstinence component – and….guess what? The AIDS numbers are rising again.
If you want to talk about an issue, know it.
