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AIDS: Condoms or Abstience

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In Uganda they have made significant progress withe the ABC approach.

"The approach used in Uganda has been named the ABC approach - firstly, encouraging sexual Abstinence until marriage; secondly, advising those who are sexually active to Be faithful to a single partner or to reduce their number of partners; and finally, especially if you have more than one sexual partner, always use a Condom. A number of factors helped to encourage people to take up these strategies."

However Bush is promoting a new Abstinece only policy - this risks reversing the progress that is being made.

"Uganda receives significant amounts of funding from America, and much of the PEPFAR money is being channelled through pro-abstinence and even anti-condom organisations which are faith-based, and which would like sexual abstinence to be a central pillar of the fight against HIV. This money is making a difference - some Ugandan teachers report being instructed by US contractors not to discuss condoms in schools because the new policy is "abstinence only""

Source:http://www.avert.org/aidsuganda.htm

The condom has been proved to reduce the spread of AIDS. Giving anti-condom messages seems to be highly irresponsible. Maybe some one can justify this course of action.

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Originally posted by invigorate
Maybe some one can justify this course of action.
Not me.

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Originally posted by invigorate
In Uganda they have made significant progress withe the ABC approach.

"The approach used in Uganda has been named the ABC approach - firstly, encouraging sexual Abstinence until marriage; secondly, advising those who are sexually active to Be faithful to a single partner or to reduce their number of partners; and finally, especially if you have more t ...[text shortened]... dom messages seems to be highly irresponsible. Maybe some one can justify this course of action.
You're gonna need a bible thumper to defend this.

God: "Moses! Pay attention! Now where was I? Oh, commandment number 11. Thou shalt not have pre-marital sex."

Moses: "Really? Oh man. Oh God I'm going to hell... Everybody's going to hell?!?!"

God: "hehehehe. Gotch'ya!

Moses: "Whew!"

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Originally posted by invigorate
In Uganda they have made significant progress withe the ABC approach.

"The approach used in Uganda has been named the ABC approach - firstly, encouraging sexual Abstinence until marriage; secondly, advising those who are sexually active to Be faithful to a single partner or to reduce their number of partners; and finally, especially if you have more t ...[text shortened]... dom messages seems to be highly irresponsible. Maybe some one can justify this course of action.
Given Bush's stellar academic performance, I'm not surprised that he feels uncomfortable moving beyond 'A.'

Yes, I especially hate this side of the admin. They don't have a strategy; they have a cop-out. Basically, their approach to fighting aids in Africa is to tell millions of people to stop having sex. And they say liberals can't face reality . . .

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The whole debate may be pointless, given that AIDS may not actually spread as a function of heterosexual intercourse.

http://www.aidscience.org/Articles/AIDScience032.asp

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abstain is the best defence against all sexuality transmited impureritys. but i think it very unlikly to happen

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Originally posted by invigorate
In Uganda they have made significant progress withe the ABC approach.

"The approach used in Uganda has been named the ABC approach - firstly, encouraging sexual Abstinence until marriage; secondly, advising those who are sexually active to Be faithful to a single partner or to reduce their number of partners; and finally, especially if you have more t ...[text shortened]... dom messages seems to be highly irresponsible. Maybe some one can justify this course of action.
It just goes to show how powerful the bible belt is in u.s. politics.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
It just goes to show how powerful the bible belt is in u.s. politics.

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The more powerful the bible belt, the more powerful the opposition.

Religion = Death.

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Originally posted by RodneyPorter
Forever chasing behind the Illuminati henchmen who gave us AIDS and who will give us Bird Flu and who control the World Bank-IMF-WHO campaigns to recreate again and again the Hegelian dialectical approach to population-control seems like a huge waste of our money. Let's recognize that the global-elites who run this show are playing all sides against th ...[text shortened]... fter another is just playing into their hands, so its hard to recommend it. Good luck to us all.
Stay low. The black helicopters are coming for you any minute. Ssshhhh... listen....

I don't go in for those grand conspiracy theories Rodney. Here's why - If you put three people in a room you're lucky if you can get two of them to agree on anything. A conspiracy of the level you're talking about is just too complicated to exist anywhere, except perhaps you're own mind.

There's no global plot to reduce the world's population. And including Jimmy Carter in it is like a bad punch line at the end of a long joke. Carter has spent almost his entire life after his presidency helping people. He doesn't just swing a hammer for photo ops. Ever hear of Habitat for Humanity?

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
It just goes to show how powerful the bible belt is in u.s. politics.
More powerful than the chastity belt?

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Originally posted by RodneyPorter
Forever chasing behind the Illuminati henchmen who gave us AIDS and who will give us Bird Flu and who control the World Bank-IMF-WHO campaigns to recreate again and again the Hegelian dialectical approach to population-control seems like a huge waste of our money. Let's recognize that the global-elites who run this show are playing all sides against th ...[text shortened]... fter another is just playing into their hands, so its hard to recommend it. Good luck to us all.
Given the bird 'flu would, in an epidemic, kill people rather indiscriminately, including members of elites and their families and colleagues, why would elites create it, even assuming they had the technology?

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Originally posted by RodneyPorter
Forever chasing behind the Illuminati henchmen who gave us AIDS and who will give us Bird Flu and who control the World Bank-IMF-WHO campaigns to recreate again and again the Hegelian dialectical approach to population-control seems like a huge waste of our money. Let's recognize that the global-elites who run this show are playing all sides against th ...[text shortened]... fter another is just playing into their hands, so its hard to recommend it. Good luck to us all.
C'mon Rodney, if they were serious about reducing population, all they'd have to do is launch a few nukes 'accidentally'...

Seriously, if all these rich and powerful people are trying to reduce the population, they're doing a really lousy job of it.

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It's slightly off the topic, but does anyone have any constructive criticism or comments about David Icke, the master of conspiracy theories? I have read a few of his books. Some of it is really startling.

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Originally posted by ASROMA
It's slightly off the topic, but does anyone have any constructive criticism or comments about David Icke, the master of conspiracy theories? I have read a few of his books. Some of it is really startling.
Don't mention the lizards...

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