Community | March 20, 2009 | 3 comments

Aids 'wars' in Africa distorted by libertarians

source: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0320/1224243121678.html

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Criticism of the pope’s attitude to condoms reveals a fault line in western propaganda, writes JOHN WATERS

DRIVING AROUND Uganda in recent years, you could hardly help noticing the government-sponsored advertising hoardings along the highway. One had a picture of a smiling man in his 60s with the slogan, “Say No to Sugar Daddies”. Another showed a slightly younger man, and the slogan, “Would you want this man sleeping with your daughter? So why are you sleeping with his?” The billboards were part of Uganda’s long, successful battle against Aids, these posters being directed at creating a sexual firebreak between generations.

In the 1980s, Uganda was at the epicentre of the African Aids catastrophe, but managed to reverse the spread of the disease through an emphasis on cultural adaptation – abstinence, fidelity and some education about condom use. In Europe and America, however, whenever the subject of Aids and Africa is mentioned, there is an assumption that condoms are incontrovertibly the sole option.

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    • "Anyone who has AIDS and is sexually active, anyone who seeks multiple partners, must protect others and themselves," said Hans-Jochen Jaschke, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hamburg in the pope's native Germany.

    • 2 years ago
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    • sickinjersey:

      it is just not realistic.it would be a hard sell just to get them to be using condoms. the billboards are to persuade young poor woman to resist these older men that have money and gifts.they are impoverished and exploited and if they can convince them that a condom is safer, maybe we won't have all these orphaned aids infected children that brake our hearts every day.I have aids and teach safer sex.you noticed i said safer. abstinence is wonderful but is it proven effective against this disease?we just know that alot of the teens and young adults in this country are not going to abstain.Rape is a big problem in africa also where is abstinence then?

    • 2 years ago
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