UN demands Uganda be more Reasonable on Condoms

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An apparatchik of the United Nations threw a temper tantrum because Uganda won't give up it's successful abstinence program. See for yourself:

The United Nations envoy to Africa, Canadian Stephen Lewis, is highly critical of an abstinence campaign that has downplayed the role of condoms but been hugely successful at reducing HIV transmission in Uganda. Population Researcher Institute's Joseph A. D'Agostino suggests that the success in combating AIDS in Uganda "isn't good enough for UN officials, whose love affair with condoms knows no bounds, and who are also angry with America for funding her own AIDS initiative in Africa instead of giving the money to them."

Uganda, whose abstinence campaign has been so successful as to be likened to a highly effective vaccine, has reduced HIV transmission rates from 18% to 5-7%. "No other nation in the world has achieved such success," writes D'Agostino. "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," D'Agostino added. "The result: less AIDS."

Lewis is highly critical of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has drawn the focus of AIDS prevention away from condoms to the successful abstinence model adopted by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet. "There is no doubt in my mind that the condom crisis in Uganda is being driven by PEPFAR," Lewis said. "To impose a dogma-driven policy that is fundamentally flawed is doing damage to Africa."

"This is a bizarre inversion of the truth, and threatens to do grievous harm to the one HIV/AIDS prevention approach that has actually worked," writes D'Agostino. Even Ugandan Health Minister Jim Muhwezi denied there is no "shortage" of condoms. "There seems to be a coordinated smear campaign by those who do not want to use any other alternative simultaneously with condoms against AIDS," he said.

There's nothing like watching a bureacrat of an unaccountable world body mouth-foam about "dogma-driven" policies, while the those policies succeed far more than the UN's failing efforts. I find Mr. Lewis' screed a surreal experience. This kind of arrogance and idiocy does nothing to convince this Fool that the UN offers any meaningful contribution to the world today. Indeed, I wonder why they even bother to stick their foot in their mouths like this at all.

Except I know. The promotion of condoms is simply the more Reasonable way to fight HIV/AIDS. What else will facilitate the unfettered pursuit of the One Thing that Matters? Abstinence? Please, how Foolish can one get? Next thing you know, those Fools will start saying that sex actually means something!

PRI's success rate in combatting AIDs in Uganda should be applauded, not denied and decried. AIDS is the pivotal crisis that threatens the entire continent. Instead of pontificating about how Reasonable condoms are, UN officials committed to solving the problem should see how PRI's campaign can be utilized in other African Nations. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen. Far too many apparatchiks have more Reasonable agendas to pursue.