Pope’s condom remarks ‘real tragedy’
- Wednesday Mar 18,2009 11:41 PM
- By editor
- In News
More than two-thirds – 67% – of the global total of 32.9 million people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. Three-quarters of all Aids deaths in 2007 happened there.
Rebecca Hodes, of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa, said that if the Pope was serious about preventing new HIV infections he would focus on promoting wider access to condoms and spreading information about how best to use them.
Hodes, the director of policy, communication and research for the campaign group, added: “Instead, his opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans.” (From The Guardian - See full text)
See also:
Pope’s condom remarks ‘real tragedy’
- France chastises Pope on condoms (BBC)
- The Stephen Lewis foundation
- Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa
- UN AIDS: Position Statement on Condoms and HIV Prevention
One Response for "Pope’s condom remarks ‘real tragedy’"
Shame on him! It is too much.
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