Rome, Italy, Jun 7, 2011 / 15:58 pm
Father Juan Jose Perez-Soba recently argued that AIDS prevention campaigns do not attack the root of the problem because they fail to combat promiscuity. Instead, he added, they focus on promoting condom use.
“It is absurd to reject from the outset that the greatest reason for the spreading and contracting of a sexually transmitted disease is promiscuity and to not take effective means to prevent it,” the priest said in an interview with CNA. He spoke on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the disease.
Fr. Perez-Soba is a moral theology professor at the San Damaso Theology Department in Madrid, Spain and the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
“It is even graver to the extent that information is hidden and the idea is conveyed that the condom is absolutely effective in preventing infection, which is false,” he added.