***If Africans are having casual *** NOW without condoms, and some say
condoms are a sabotage, what's the answer. Abstinence promotion doesn't
work, condoms don't work, so what's next, mass sterilization?
Al
"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> World's Most Successful AIDS Prevention Programme in Uganda "Sabotaged"
by
> Western "Experts"
> Western advisors used their control of international funding to force a
> change
> in direction to condoms and casual ***
>
> By Hilary White
>
> KAMPALA, Uganda, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While the US Senate
> considers a proposal to allocate US$50 million more for AIDS prevention
> programmes, one Ugandan expert says it will be wasted money if the
> attitudes
> of the Western AIDS prevention community towards AIDS transmission do
not
> change. In a column appearing in the Wa****ngton Post on June 30, one of
> Uganda's leading AIDS prevention experts called on the Western "experts"
> to
> "Let my people go."
>
> "We understand that casual *** is dear to you, but staying alive is dear
> to
> us. Listen to African wisdom, and we will show you how to prevent AIDS."
>
> Sam L. Ruteikara wrote in the Wa****ngton Post that efforts to maintain
the
> world's most successful AIDS prevention programme was "sabotaged" by
> precisely
> those Western "experts" who insisted that only condoms would work.
>
> Ruteikara is the co-chair of Uganda's National AIDS-Prevention
Committee.
> He
> wrote in a column in the Wa****ngton Post on June 30, "AIDS epidemics in
> Africa
> are driven by people having *** regularly with more than one person."
The
> Western experts, dedicated to the exclusive promotion of condoms, were
> incensed when Ugandan AIDS rates plummeted with this "ABC" method that
> left
> condoms as a "last resort".
>
> The success of the Ugandan programme, Ruteikara said, did not sit well
> with
> those international experts and advisors, sent to Uganda to oversee the
> spending of international relief funds, who are devoted to the condom as
> the
> first and last answer to the AIDS epidemic.
>
> Despite the official line that Western "advisors" were to work within
> local
> programmes, these experts, Ruteikara asserted, actively stonewalled the
> Ugandan committee's recommendations. The Western advisors objected that
> the
> programme was an attempt "to limit people's ***ual freedom" and they
used
> their control of the international funding to force a change in
direction.
>
> "Repeatedly, our 25-member prevention committee put faithfulness and
> abstinence into the National Strategic Plan that guides how PEPFAR
> [President's Emergency Plan for HIV-AIDS Relief] money for our country
> will be
> spent. Repeatedly, foreign advisers erased our recommendations. When the
> do***ent draft was published, fidelity and abstinence were missing."
>
> More insidiously, Ruteikara says that a "suspicious" statistic appeared
in
> re****ts that claimed a significant increase in rates of AIDS among
married
> couples. The claim was that 42 per cent of married couples were
infected,
> a
> rate twice that of prostitutes. Repeated requests for the origin of this
> statistic were ignored. Domestic surveys done by Ugandan health
officials
> found that only 6.3 per cent of married couples are infected, lower even
> than
> rates among widowed and divorced Ugandans.
>
> Since the Ugandans were forced to change their programmes, surveys have
> shown
> that the percentage of ***ually active men with multiple partners has
more
> than doubled, undoing earlier declines, and the AIDS rate has begun to
> climb
> again.
>
> The Ugandan success story is one of the most impressive in the fight
> against
> AIDS. Between 1989 and 1995, the number of men having three or more
***ual
> partners in a year dropped from 15 to three per cent and HIV rates
plunged
> from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. At the same time, Western
> nations brought more than 2 billion condoms on Africa and the epidemic
> continued in nations that went along with the condoms-only approach.
>
> The motive for opposing the Ugandan initiative, Ruteikara said, was
> financial
> as well as ideological. "In the fight against AIDS, profiteering has
> trumped
> prevention," he said. "AIDS is no longer simply a disease; it has become
a
> multibillion-dollar industry."
>
> Ruteikara's assertions are sup****ted by Dr. James Chin, a former top
AIDS
> epidemiologist at the World Health Organization, who said, "Easily
> preventable
> diseases are still killing millions of children each year, while
billions
> of
> dollars are being squandered annually by AIDS programs."
>
> Robert England, head of the charity Health Systems Workshop said in the
> British Medical Journal, "Although HIV causes 3.7 per cent of
[worldwide]
> mortality, it receives 25 per cent of international health care aid."
>
> Ruteikara concluded, "Telling men and women to keep *** sacred -- to
save
> ***
> for marriage and then remain faithful -- is telling them to love one
> another
> deeply with their whole hearts. Most HIV infections in Africa are spread
> by
> *** outside of marriage: casual *** and infidelity. The solution is
> faithful
> love."
>
> "We, the poor of Africa, remain silenced in the global dialogue. Our
> wisdom
> about our own culture is ignored."
>
> Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
> UN Anger Over Uganda's Successful Abstinence Program Fuelled by Loss of
> Funds
> Says Researcher
> http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05101404.html
>
> http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071112.html
>
>
> --
> Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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