We are living fantastic times. The Sunday Express revealed that a £67 expense claim made by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for a Virgin Media bill included two 18-rated features viewed last April at her constituency house. Though she did not view the porn movies, let’s call a cat a cat, it is amazing that this is happening in the house of the woman who wants to control other’s, and in particular men, sexuality. I refer here to her “proposal for a new legislation aimed at bringing the sex industry …

From Entebbe, Uganda – The New Vision, a Uganda daily, has been a never-ending source of inspiration all week and today was no exception with the publication of two articles on bride’s and groom’s virginity at the time of tying the knot.
In all societies and since time immemorial, the bride’s virginity has been praised, sought and defended until the last minute. What was interesting in today’s articles is that they are mostly about the bride’s virginity and how important it is for the groom. Thought the second article is about …

From Entebbe, Uganda – “A man shocked parents on Sunday when he confessed to recruiting school children into homosexuality to promote the practice in Ugandan schools.”
Hence started the opening paragraph of a front page feature of the Ugandan daily The New Vision under a 5-cm letter header: “HOMOSEXUAL ADMITS RECRUITING STUDENTS”
New Vision’s Paul Kiwuuwa writes that George Oundo has received funding and training from “abroad” and targeted children, mostly “needy” ones, because children are “easy to initiate and they like easy things”. “Conversion” was achieved through books and compact disc …

From Entebbe, Uganda - The New Vision, a Uganda daily, reprinted today an article by Irish Times writer John Waters lambasting the Western media for pumping out its partisan propaganda about HIV prevention through the distribution of condoms.

The western media has been pumping out its partisan propaganda about prevention of AIDS
through the distribution of condoms (original caption)
Beyond taking the defence of the Pontiff’s unfounded claim that condoms aggravated the problem of HIV, Waters’s proposition is that “once you advocate condom use, you are accepting that abstinence is no longer a persuasive option”. Deliberate …

Africa and in particular sub-Saharan Africa is the continent the most affected by the HIV epidemic. During the last 25 years more than 20 millions people have died of AIDS in Africa. There, the epidemic particularly affects women, HIV transmission is mostly through heterosexual sex, and concurrent relationships have been identified as a force driving the spread of the virus in the population. In Africa, HIV is mostly about sex. Prevention interventions have been difficult, hindered by limited political commitment, if not political denial of the cause of AIDS, religious …