AIDS Researcher: European and U.N. Anti-Abstinence Bias Will Cost Lives

Folks, this is a much more fundamental problem then most people think. You see somehow the abstinence only stance, which, by the way, is the only surefire method for not getting sexually transmitted diseases, has been associated with Christians. As most of us have come to realize by now, anything even remotely Christian is almost immediately rejected by the E. C. and U. N.
So it’s kind of like cutting off one's nose to spite his face. It may be the best idea in the world, but because Christians endorse it, the idea must be rejected out of hand.

(AgapePress) - A Harvard researcher who studied how Uganda cut its AIDS/HIV infection rate says the European Union is giving Africa bad advice on that topic. Led by the United Kingdom, the EU issued a statement for World AIDS Day on December 1, urging Africans not to listen to a message from the U.S. emphasizing abstinence to prevent spread of the AIDS virus.
Dr. Edward Green says although that message came in reaction to a perceived shortage of condoms in Uganda, the EU and the United Nations apparently believe the U.S. is trying to force the African nation to bow to an abstinence-only agenda. But that idea, he asserts, is the result of a misunderstanding.
"I think how the story got started, I mean the factual part of it, is that a number of condoms were recalled because they were defective," Green explains. "This happened when Uganda got their supply of public sector condoms. It was not the usual source, and they were poor-quality condoms that then deteriorated, so they had to be recalled."
Also, the researcher contends, the EU and the UN are under the misguided impression that the abstinence focus in Uganda's AIDS prevention program comes from the Bush administration when, in fact, the Bush administration's model for AIDS prevention comes from Uganda. As a result, the Europeans are asking for broader ideas to fight AIDS but are, in reality, promoting a narrow message, the doctor points out.
"All the EU wants to promote is condoms and other contraceptives and drugs and testing," Green asserts, "and what Uganda did was all of the above, plus strong components of trying to influence people's sexual behavior in the direction of safer and less risky." Obviously, he adds, "ABC" -- a combination of emphasis on Abstinence, Being faithful, and using Condoms -- "is broader than 'C' alone" for preventing AIDS.
Green says the EU wants to push things like combating poverty and empowering women to prevent the spread of the deadly sexually transmitted disease, but he insists that none of those efforts have made any marked improvement in reducing the rates of infection. And when governments change from the "ABC" model to just emphasizing "C" in their other social programs, he predicts AIDS/HIV infection rates will only increase.

There is a reason that God told us to wait until we got married. If the couple has never been with anyone else prior to getting married, there is little, if no chance, that they will bring diseases to the marriage. Abstinence works. Geeez, this stuff is so basic, I can't understand what is so hard about understanding it. Pretty much a "no-brainer". Hummm...maybe that explains it.