Elizabeth at The Wisdom of Whores brought my attention to the website of Human Life International whose mission is “to promote and defend the sanctity of life and family around the world according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church through prayer, service and education.”
HLI boast the results of its impressive detective work in Tanzania that “resulted in the destruction of over 10 million condoms.” HLI is clearly against the promotion or use of condom for the prevention of HIV infection and has a 12 points “facts sheet” about …

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A few days ago Elizabeth Pisani commented on her website on how the Cambodian government caved in to US pressure. US pro-abstinence ideologues were meddling with a recognised efficacious HIV prevention intervention in exchange for economic advantages.
This was an interesting post and it fitted with one of the main theme explored in Elizabeth’s book, i.e. how ideology can take over epidemiology and surveillance data when it comes to designing HIV prevention programme.
Interestingly, in a Washington Post column, Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s …