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2009
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EmailPope Benedict XVI apparently sees grace in ignorance. Today, he used the opening moments of his first trip to Africa to reiterate the Church's opposition to condom use. Feels crazy just to type that out. Even worse when it's being trotted around a continent with more than 22 million people already HIV positive, not to mention the host of other STD and family-planning concerns that Africans face.
That's just a lie. You could fill the Vatican with research that shows exactly the opposite. But whatever. This mess is sadly not new. For all 27 years of this epidemic, all the way around the globe, the Church has thumbed its nose at science and actively worked to undermine public heath efforts to control HIV's spread. It wouldn't even be worth commenting upon at this point, if not for the fact that millions of people who listen to the Pope's words are likely to put their lives at risk because of it.
--KAI WRIGHT
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I lived in East Africa 1984-1986. People were convinced then, and now, that AIDS is a "white man's disease". There are all kinds of bogus "cures" for AIDS. One popular cure is having sex with a virgin, will cure you.
It is time to start fighting AIDS with the truth. It is the best weapon we have, so far. Until a vaccine, or a cure can be developed, only the truth will save us from this disease.