CONDOMS = DEATH

United Nations Report says Condoms have 10% Failure Rate against AIDs (LifesiteNews.com/CWN, 6/24/03)

The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) has published a draft of a study, due out at the end of the month, which shows that condoms are ineffective in protecting against HIV an estimated 10 percent of the time. The admission from the UN, which is far lower than some studies which have shown larger than 50 percent failure rates, is a blow to population control activists which have aggressively marketed condoms in the Third World as nearly 100 percent effective.

The Boston Globe, which reviewed the draft report, demonstrates the false marketing of the population control advocacy group, Population Action International (PAI). A September 2002 report, ''Condoms Count,'' published by PAI, said, ''Public health experts around the globe agree that condoms block contact with bodily fluids that can carry the HIV virus and have nearly 100 percent effectiveness when used correctly and consistently.''

The report examined two decades of scientific literature on condoms, and UNAIDS says lead author Norman Hearst "makes a cogent argument that we should be talking about safer sex, not safe sex, with condoms."

For close to twenty years now the Left has marketed two lies where AIDs was concerned, one which was just meant to destigmatize the disease, but the other of which was murderous. We've been told that everyone is at risk of AIDs, even though it is not possible for a straight male to contract the disease via sexual intercourse. And we've--but more importantly gay men have--been told that it's perfectly safe to continue having frequent random sex so long as you use a condom. We'll never know how many people believed this latter lie, nor, given their other pathlogies, whether being told the truth would have made a difference, but it is undeniably one of the most shameful episodes in the history of public health.

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