Medical Journalist Says Reliance on Condoms Spreads HIV/AIDS

LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/23/06 | Gudrun Schultz

[wagglebee]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A medical journalist has added her voice to claims that the explosion in HIV/AIDS infection rates is directly linked to reliance on condom use as a virus preventative.

Writing for Crisis Magazine, prize-winning investigative journalist Sue Ellin Browder said the growing consensus among public health professionals is that condoms should only be used as a last measure of protection for persons involved in extremely high-risk activity such as sex-trade work.

Zenit News Agency reported yesterday on Browder’s conclusions. “So far, there’s no good evidence that condoms will reverse population-wide epidemics like those in sub-Saharan Africa,” Browder wrote. She offered evidence that dramatic increases in condom distribution in African nations paralleled an explosion in HIV/AIDS infection rates within the population.

Citing statistics from South Africa, Browder stated that condom distribution between 1994 and 1998 leaped to 198 million from 6 million, but death rates from HIV/AIDS in the years between 1997 and 2002 saw a massive 57 per cent increase.

A report from the UNAIDS agency in 2003 confirmed the dangers of relying on condoms to protect against the HIV/AIDS virus. The report showed that condoms are ineffective in protecting against HIV an estimated 10% of the time. That estimate, although itself a major blow to population control activists who have consistently claimed condoms to be 100% effective, is still far lower than some studies which have shown more than a 50% failure rate.

Ms. Browder’s report echoes the warnings of multiple medical experts, among them Dr. Norman Hearst of the University of California, who raised the alarm on condom use as an AIDS preventative in 2004. Dr. Hearst presented statistics showing a marked correlation between increased condom sales in the African nations of Kenya, Botswana, and others, and a parallel increase in HIV rates by year.

Promoting abstinence and marital faithfulness has had the only significant measurable impact on reducing HIV infection rates in Africa. The country of Uganda has achieved an unprecedented reduction in HIV transmission rates, up to 18%, with a program known as the ABC approach—‘A’ stands for ‘abstinence’ and ‘B’ for ‘be faithful.’ ‘C’, for ‘condom use’ is suggested only as a last-ditch effort to find some protection from the disease, recommended as a partial safety net for those who insist on engaging in high-risk sexual behaviour.

“Most sub-Saharan African nations, following the pro-condoms model, continue to suffer from rising HIV infection rates. Ugandan surveys show a reduction in premarital sexual activity among Ugandan youth and a reduction in extramarital activity among adults,” wrote Population Researcher Institute’s Joseph A. D’Agostino.

Ms. Browder herself has blamed the sexual revolution in Western society for leading directly to today’s AIDS epidemic, stating that, “If truth be told, the revolution has been a disaster…. Today we have more than two dozen varieties [of sexually transmitted disease], from pelvic inflammatory disease…to AIDS (which presently infects 42 million people worldwide and has already killed another 23 million),” in an article for Crisis Magazine in 2004.

Read Zenit News Agency coverage:
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=91414

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:

United Nations Report says Condoms Fail to Protect against AIDS 10% of the Time
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jun/03062303.html

New Research Confirms Condoms Not Effective in HIV Prevention
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jan/04011408.html

UN Anger Over Uganda's Successful Abstinence Program Fueled by Loss of Funds Says Researcher
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05101404.html

[DBeers]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

Pre "the pill," condom babies were common -- and women could only "catch" a baby a few days a month. With AIDS a catch can be made every day -- that's a lot of disease...

[MHGinTN]

I'm curious: in researching your paper, did you come across the gov. study (regarding GIs using German prostitutes) that implicated condom use and HIV entering the male's body through pubic hair follicles?

[GOPJ]

Everybody worries about what food they eat, the air they breath but the biggest killer is unprotected sex. Funny how the MSM will warn us about french fries but not gay sex - and yes, gay sex is much more dangerous to a person's health than french fries... and multiple partner heterosexual sex is more dangerous than sugar and white bread combined - you'd never know it from the MSM...

[Chena]

Well, no kidding. When we raised our sons we told them that if they thought condoms provided the answer to "safe sex", then they should remember that many kids were born to parents who used condoms for birth control. If a sperm can get by a condom, then HIV/AIDS, and other diseases can too.

[John Lenin]

A statement that stayed with me, was when you have unproteced sex with someone you are also having sex with everybody else that person had sex with. I know a few women and men who got hepatitus from a sex partner and thats what really woke me up to how true that statement is.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Dr. Hearst presented statistics showing a marked correlation between increased condom sales in the African nations of Kenya, Botswana, and others, and a parallel increase in HIV rates by year...pretty well says it all....

[nmh]

"Promoting abstinence and marital faithfulness has had the only significant measurable impact on reducing HIV infection rates in Africa. The country of Uganda has achieved an unprecedented reduction in HIV transmission rates, up to 18%, with a program known as the ABC approach—‘A’ stands for ‘abstinence’ and ‘B’ for ‘be faithful.’ ‘C’, for ‘condom use’ is suggested only as a last-ditch effort to find some protection from the disease, recommended as a partial safety net for those who insist on engaging in high-risk sexual behaviour."

So what do our arrogant public schools advocate?

Birth control for females and condoms for males.

One can only hope that Uganda's success is touted more ... realistically, it won't be.

I swear there are forces if you will, out there, that really love DEATH - AIDS. They want people to get AIDS. They'll tell you nearly anything to mislead you with the hopes of you getting AIDS.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Agreed-upon monogamy is one thing, but using abstinence to avoid getting an STD is like avoiding a car accident by never leaving the house.

It's more like resolving not to drive until you've had driver training, you've got a license, and you're committed to never drive drunk.

[AD from SpringBay]

Guess who is no longer welcome to work in our nation's public schools? *cough - Sue Ellin Browder - cough*

[wintertime]

Agreed-upon monogamy is one thing, but using abstinence to avoid getting an STD is like avoiding a car accident by never leaving the house.

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This is a poor analogy.

Sex out side of faithful monogomy by both partners is like playing in traffic.

Using abstinence is like walking on a sidewalk. For example, it is possible for a truck to jump the curb, and, yes, it is possible to get an STD through some odd happening such as a blood transfusion..

[wintertime]

Everybody worries about what food they eat, the air they breath but the biggest killer is unprotected sex. Funny how the MSM will warn us about french fries but not gay sex

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Isn't is amazing how our government schools teach complete abstinence from smoking, but our youth are somehow too weak willed to abstain from pre-marital sex?

[wintertime]

One can only hope that Uganda's success is touted more ... realistically, it won't be.

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Doing so would impinge on the sex lives and consciences of the liberal/Marxist government school teachers.

And,,,yes, it is due to the culture of death. I call the liberal-Marxists the Death Eaters.

[N. Theknow]

In other words, something strange is going on in Africa.

Makes a person wonder if maybe they report "cause of death - AIDS" for anything and everything to squeeze more money out of the U.S., U.N., WHO, etc.

[N. Theknow]

claiming "anyone" could contract AIDS.

This is the claim when they want your charitable contribution.

When they want to be in the workplace, especially healthcare and food service and schools, they say AIDS is damn near impossible to catch.

[WV Mountain Mama]

That was on the show Mythbusters. They proved that it wasn't true.

[Oklahoma]

Anyone interested in the transmission of the HIV virus and whether or not it is the cause of AIDS should read "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" by Michael Fumento. I first read his work on the subject in National Review and The American Spectator back when the panic was full blown. If this disease was all that contagious we would have all been dead by now.

The ones fueling the panic did so to increase funding for research on a cure and to help "control" the public's behavior. They weren't necessarily on the same side of the political, social, religious, or economic spectrum, but they all knew by promoting the idea of universal susceptibility to the disease they could promote their own agendas. For anyone wanting to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, worry about Herpes, Warts, Syphilis, or Chlamydia. If it's food borne disease you are concerned with, worry about several bacterial and viral illnesses that kill thousands each year all over the world.