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UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to Aids Epidemic

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UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to Aids Epidemic AUSTIN RUSE


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According to a United Nations report released on June 23, the UN's massive effort to supply the world with condoms in a bid to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS is failing.
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After exhaustive analysis of survey data from developing countries around the world, the Population Division of the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs has concluded that the ready availability of condoms has not significantly altered individuals' sexual behavior.
In "HIV/AIDS, Awareness and Behaviour," the Population Division bluntly asserts that "Much effort has been spent on promoting the prophylactic use of condoms as part of AIDS prevention. However, over the years, the condom has not become more popular among couples." The report goes on to claim that, despite widespread knowledge of AIDS and easy access to condoms, "Only a small percentage of respondents began using condoms to prevent HIV transmission. Fewer than 8 per cent of women in all countries surveyed reported that they had changed their behaviour by using condoms. Among married women, the percentages were particularly low."

The report claims that most women desire children, and are thus unwilling to use prophylactics that also act as contraceptives. The report states that "In a number of Western and Central African countries, the difficulty in promoting the use of condoms is compounded by the fact that the large majority of women who are sexually active intend to become pregnant; therefore, they are not likely to resort to using the condom."

In what may come as a surprise to "safe sex" advocates such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the report contends that the only significant behavioral change has been towards more monogamous relationships. The report states that, "Among those respondents, whether male or female, who did change their behaviour, the most frequently cited change had entailed confining sexual activity to one partner." The study also concludes that "In several countries, a significant number of men?reported that they had discontinued sexual contacts with prostitutes to avoid getting infected."

During the recent UN Child Summit, the US delegation's efforts to further encourage sexual abstinence and monogamy were defeated, mainly at the behest of the European Union. It is possible that, in light of the findings of the Population Division, the US position will gain prominence in future UN debates on AIDS prevention.

On May 24, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed former UNFPA head Nafis Sadik as his special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia. Under Sadik's direction, UNFPA was the world's largest supplier of condoms, and UNFPA's AIDS-prevention program focused overwhelmingly on the promotion of condom use. It is unclear how Sadik will integrate the conclusions of the Population Division report into her new initiative. According to a UN press release, Sadik will be responsible for spear-heading "an expanded, multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS" throughout Asia.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Austin Ruse. "UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to Aids Epidemic." June 27 2002.

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go away please

what is the answer to countless links to far-right wing nut job sites? You need to abstain from posting this junk - you don't care about AIDS in Africa anyway, right?
 
I'm not really suprised that pushing condoms at the aids epidemic in africa isn't working b/c this is more of a cultural specific issue. The fact that "the large majority of women who are sexually active intend to become pregnant" kind of makes condom use a lot less likely. So if condoms aren't to be used at all of course having monogomous relationships and staying away from prostitutes is going to reduce the spread of STDs.

What is important here is to not try to apply this to the entire world b/c in many other places condoms will be used and will save lives and keep unwanted/unplanned children from being brought into this world.

I think the article title is misleading - it should actually be " UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to Aids Epidemic IN AFRICA"
 
Originally posted by: Tommunist
I'm not really suprised that pushing condoms at the aids epidemic in africa isn't working b/c this is more of a cultural specific issue. The fact that "the large majority of women who are sexually active intend to become pregnant" kind of makes condom use a lot less likely. So if condoms aren't to be used at all of course having monogomous relationships and staying away from prostitutes is going to reduce the spread of STDs.

What is important here is to not try to apply this to the entire world b/c in many other places condoms will be used and will save lives and keep unwanted/unplanned children from being brought into this world.

I think the article title is misleading - it should actually be " UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to Aids Epidemic IN AFRICA"
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What he said.

I don't know why you are promoting one partner relationships that much. Well, i know you are very christian, but i think only having sex with one person through your life is pathetic.

And condoms work, they work even better if people know how to use them. So that abstinence only thing (which is pathetic and will never work) will lead to an increase in aids.
 
Is it really any surprise that, in areas that don't have good education to begin with, condoms aren't helping?

Seems to me that safe sex measures/education work just fine in Europe, where they're actually taught, with America lagging far behind with far higher rates of teen pregnancy and STDs because of more prudish, puritanical views on sex.

Christian "morality" is an oxymoron. It doesn't exist. Christian right-wing extremists' views on sex education are one of the best displays of this fact.
 
Oh, and Riprorin, the quote in your signature is some of the biggest, most foul smelling pile of horse dung that I have _EVER_ read. Try reading some actual history...you can start with some of the philosophers who were so influential on the founding fathers in the first place...people like Thomas Paine, John Locke, and others.

I don't think you'll like it when you realize that the same person who wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" also wrote the highly critical "Age of Reason."

Only the most ignorant Christian would come to the conclusion that our Bill of Rights stemmed from the same book that preached the exact opposite of what the Bill of Rights actually stand for. It's the worst kind of ad hoc reasoning, and anyone who commits it should seriously check themselves for some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
 
Originally posted by: dgevert
Oh, and Riprorin, the quote in your signature is some of the biggest, most foul smelling pile of horse dung that I have _EVER_ read. Try reading some actual history...you can start with some of the philosophers who were so influential on the founding fathers in the first place...people like Thomas Paine, John Locke, and others.

I don't think you'll like it when you realize that the same person who wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" also wrote the highly critical "Age of Reason."

Only the most ignorant Christian would come to the conclusion that our Bill of Rights stemmed from the same book that preached the exact opposite of what the Bill of Rights actually stand for. It's the worst kind of ad hoc reasoning, and anyone who commits it should seriously check themselves for some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
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The quote in my sig was made by democratic president Harry S. Truman.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Here's the full UN report:

http://www.un.org/esa/populati...eness/AIDS_English.pdf
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Some interesting excerpts:

One in three women, on average, referred to the prophylactic use of condoms against AIDS (see figure XII). In only a few countries did most women know about condoms and mention them as a way of preventing AIDS. The discrepancy between the reported level of knowledge of condoms and the spontaneous references to AIDS prevention suggested that women view condoms primarily as contraceptives, not as prophylactics.

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In some countries, the condom was clearly associated with extramarital sexual intercourse. While only a
small number of both men and women reported having used condoms during their last engagement in intercourse with their spouse, the proportion of respondents who had used a condom during their last engagement in intercourse with someone other than their spouse jumped to at least 15 per cent among women in Guinea, Kenya, Togo and the United Republic of Tanzania (see table 13). The proportion went as high as 38 per cent in Zimbabwe and 42 per cent in Burkina Faso. Corresponding figures for men were even higher: 51 per cent in Burkina Faso and 60 per cent in Zimbabwe.
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Much effort has been spent on promoting the prophylactic use of condoms as part of AIDS
prevention. However, over the years, the condom has not become more popular among couples. The
proportion of married women of reproductive age currently using condoms ranges from 1 per cent in
Africa and Oceania, to 3 percent in Asia and 4 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the other
hand, the condom is often used by men in extramarital sex encounters and is therefore associated with
non-spousal sex in many countries. Married women viewed the condom primarily as a contraceptive but,
at the same time, expressed preference for other forms of contraception. This dual perception of the
(male) condom makes promoting it as a prophylactic very difficult.

In a number of Western and Central African countries, the difficulty in promoting the use of condoms
is compounded by the fact that the large majority of women who are sexually active intend to
become pregnant; therefore, they are not likely to resort to using the condom. This is the case for
the high-fertility countries where the custom of prolonged sexual abstinence following childbirth
prevails. In those countries, a large number of married men do have extramarital sexual encounters during their wife?s (or wives) period of abstinence, making them more likely to become infected before resuming marital sex. The fact that, so far, HIV/AIDS prevalence remains relatively low in those countries,
has limited the potentially dramatic impact of such behaviours. Yet, questions can be raised as to what
changes will occur in women?s sexual life and the consequences for the epidemic in the event of a
decline in fertility.
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there is no solution IMO, the only way to get rid of aids is kill all the people that have aids right now, but thats impossible and wrong.
 
Originally posted by: Riprorin
The quote in my sig was made by democratic president Harry S. Truman.
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Then, like current leadership, he didn't know jack about what he was talking about. The Bible is NOT the fundamental basis for our Bill of Rights; furthermore, it contradicts it in so many ways...

Here's a statement more knowledgeable men in the history of America endorsed: you know, the congressmen and senators who were there when this country was being founded.

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

Found in the Treaty of Tripoli...whether you think there's controversy over this statement and how it got there, it was IN the version that was ratified unanimously by the United States senate...

Time to take off the blinders and stop automatically believing what your church tells you. All of it is wrong, and most of it is dishonestly so...
 
Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Originally posted by: NeoV
catholiceducation.org

go away please

what is the answer to countless links to far-right wing nut job sites? You need to abstain from posting this junk - you don't care about AIDS in Africa anyway, right?
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Try this then.
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Oh, you mean where they say this:

"The conclusions do not mean that every tenth condom is defective, but rather that something has gone wrong in about 10 percent of their use. In many cases, specialists said, human error is the source of the failure, resulting in condoms slipping off, breaking, or not being put on early enough."

But that wouldn't possibly agree with what I was saying, now, would it?

You see, people like Riprorin are actually *contributing* to this. They would have the world ignorant on matters of human sexuality. They would have you not knowing how to use a condom, and thus they would have you becoming the victim of AIDs and dying.

Like I said, Christian (and I include Catholic here) morality is an oxymoron - it doesn't exist.
 
Originally posted by: dgevert
Originally posted by: Riprorin
The quote in my sig was made by democratic president Harry S. Truman.
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Then, like current leadership, he didn't know jack about what he was talking about. The Bible is NOT the fundamental basis for our Bill of Rights; furthermore, it contradicts it in so many ways...

Here's a statement more knowledgeable men in the history of America endorsed: you know, the congressmen and senators who were there when this country was being founded.

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

Found in the Treaty of Tripoli...whether you think there's controversy over this statement and how it got there, it was IN the version that was ratified unanimously by the United States senate...

Time to take off the blinders and stop automatically believing what your church tells you. All of it is wrong, and most of it is dishonestly so...
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Looks like someone decided that his New Year's resolution was to be a bigot. 😀
 
Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Looks like someone decided that his New Year's resolution was to be a bigot. 😀
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What, because I decided I'm tired of the same old lies coming from the conservative right wing, and try to correct it when I see it? Where's the bigotry? I said his views are wrong. I didn't say he was an inferior person because he's Catholic. I didn't say I hate him because he believes in god(s). I just said he's wrong and explained why, and I didn't spare him any courtesies in doing so.

Just because I respect your right to have a belief (and will die for that right, should it become necessary*) doesn't mean I have to respect that belief itself.

* I didn't just arbitrarily choose that military avatar...it's there for a reason.
 
Originally posted by: dgevert

Just because I respect your right to have a belief (and will die for that right, should it become necessary*) doesn't mean I have to respect that belief itself.

* I didn't just arbitrarily choose that military avatar...it's there for a reason.
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:thumbsup:
 
The solution to the AIDS epidemic is education. Men in some African countries believe AIDS can be cured by having sex with a virgin. Hmm...maybe the godless liberal communists aren't the problem here? The biggest problem in the AIDS epidemic, and in the world, is ignorance. Do your part to stop AIDS in Africa: stop being dumb.
 
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