Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Fw: [catholicACT] Uganda's Success Due to Sexual Discipline, Not Condoms
This SPUC article is a 30-page critique of BBC's programme Sex and the Holy City. It argues that the BBC is biased against the Church and it has pro-choice/pro-abortion agenda.
The following excerpt quotes USAID on the success of the Uganda's battle against AID. Uganda's Success Due to Sexual Discipline, Not Condoms.
It is vindication of the Church's approach. Men are not animals that cannot control his sexual urges.
http://www.spuc.org.uk/papers/biasbbc.pdf
According to USAID’s report
What Happened in Uganda?14[page 23]
Uganda is ‘considered to be one of the world’s earliest and best success stories inovercoming HIV’ [p. 2] with HIV rates declining throughout the 1990s. What is most
interesting about Uganda’s successful approach to the HIV crisis is that condoms did
not playa major part in reducing the rate of HIV infection in Uganda. A major factor was the
widespread encouragement of ‘partner reduction through talking about delaying sexual debut
– remaining abstinent, remaining faithful to one uninfected person if "you’ve already started",
"zero grazing" and using condoms if "you’re going to move around"’ with the emphasis on
partner reduction, abstinence and delaying sexual activity. The approach was so successful
that in the Soroti District, the percentage of sexually active 13-16-year-olds dropped from
60% in 1994 to less than 5% in 2001 [p. 6]. The report states that ‘condom promotion was not
an especially dominant element in Uganda’s earlier response to AIDS’ [p. 7] as ‘nearly all of
the decline in HIV incidence (and much of the decline in prevalence) had already occurred by
1995…. Therefore, it seems unlikely that such levels of condom ever-use in Uganda (let alone
consistent use, which was presumably much lower) could have played a major role in HIV
reduction at the national level, in the earlier years.’ [p. 8]
