Madrid, Spain, Jul 18, 2004 / 22:00 pm
In a statement made public this weekend, the Independent Anti-AIDS Committee of Spain lamented the “stubbornness” against abstinence and faithfulness shown by leaders at the recent World AIDS Conference in Jakarta.
According to the statement, “The novelty of this conference was that the US and Uganda brought up two subjects that are taboo—abstinence and fidelity, and the positive results of their application. They should be congratulated.”
“Some have hypocritically torn their garments” in protest against these ideas, the statement indicates, and it proposes three questions to evaluate the true struggle against the disease which threatens to reduce the life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa to 32 years:
- What helps in the fight against AIDS, abstinence or promiscuity?
- What helps and what hiders the fight against AIDS, fidelity or polygamy?
- Why the problem in recognizing the evidence?