This has definitively been a condom week!

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Some interesting results are coming out of the 2006 Gay Men’s Sex survey completed by more than 12,000 men in the UK.
Roger Pebody at Aidsmap provides an outline of the results presented in this 2008 report but amongst this mine of information there is one piece of information that is particularly interesting and that is illustrated in this first graph
This graph illustrates HIV testing history amongst the respondent according to their number of male partners during the last year (2006). For the non-specialist it reads as follow:
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To prove that condoms don’t work, pro-life & anti condoms organisations such as The Illinois Family Institute often cite the case of two Asian countries with almost equal populations: Thailand (pop. 63,753,000) and the Philippines (pop. 88,351,000) and what they call “facts” about the two countries. It reads like that,
“Both countries saw their first cases of AIDS appear in 1984. Both embarked on campaigns to combat the threat and spread of this deadly disease. That’s where the similarity ends. The Philippine government educated its people and …

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While visiting Sydney for World Youth Day, Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier explained that if the church had not instructed its followers to use condoms to slow the spread of HIV it was because such a call would make little difference
The cardinal compared the situation in Uganda where partner reduction contributed to a slow down of the HIV epidemics in the early 90s to that of South Africa where condoms were widely availability but did little to stop the HIV epidemic.
Cardinal Fox Napier is not completely …

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