No, just leave them to learn by their mistakes. Sterilization isn't
going to stop promiscuity. Only death will do that, so leave them alone
and let nature take its course. There are far too many humans around
anyway and nature must find its own way to deal with over-population:
famines, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, mosquitoes, war, ...
AGGreen wrote:
> ***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
> news:527j749mghfnpt90nmviqiv99ql568cs43@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
>> Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
>> Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
>> E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full
>> stop uk
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