Condoms: Our most trusted method to prevent HIV...(3)
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Dear All
I want to believe that we can actually be honest here, condom I
repeat, condom can not stop HIV/AIDS COMPLETELY but abstinence
will! Let us stop fooling people because we want money. To be
polite this statement of yours is an understatement, 'The major-
ity of infections around the world are due to one simple truth
that people ARE having sex without a condom! Please try to be
scientifically honest; the countries that use your condom most
are having the highest rate of the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Think. May God Bless Us All.
Azeh John Muma
Rural Development Consultant
Bamenda, Cameroon
mailto:azehjohnmuma@justice.com
Condoms: Our most trusted method to prevent HIV...(4)
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Dear All,
I fully support Mr. Azeh John Muma's statement that condoms
can't be a solution for HIV/AIDS, neither scientifically, nor
ethically. On the contrary, the protection/prevention to
HIV/AIDS can be initiated through restoration of the tradi-
tional/faith based morals which were effectively present in the
communities of eastern countries. However, the morale is now
disappearing with the slogan like "have indiscriminate sex using
condom!" Thus the call for a condom is in another way a danger-
ous call for immoral sex in many countries/communities where
that is still very minimal if at all. Again, the restoration of
the community based traditional cultures can prevent the
HIV/AIDS spread effectively with sustainability, only the West-
ern companies may feel endangered by reduce in the sales of
their condoms in the name of HIV/AIDS! However, I am not against
the condoms in those countries with indiscriminate sex, but that
is only a "symptomatic management", not the actual cure.
In Bangladesh, the traditional community culture is strong
enough to block the HIV/AIDS spread (prevalence much lower than
the neighboring India and Myanmar), but with the donor driven
condom promotion activities, people are increasingly becoming
aware of the fact that "doing stray sex" = no problem as that
can be approved by the condom use(!). Some of that donor driven
media advertises recently failed and are stopped as our commu-
nity didn't like that at all and they could not tolerate those
in the TV/Radio while viewing with the family members. These
propagandas are damaging our century old traditional effective
community defense mechanism against immoral sex, which is the
root cause HIV/AIDS transmission.
Condoms can be used as per requirements, but it can't be the
main actor to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission what can be achieved
through restoration of traditional morals by community based
initiatives in the sustainable way. So condoms can be there, but
it will be not wise to depend on the condom solely for the pre-
vention of HIV/AIDS.
Sincerely,
Dr. Shamim ul Moula
MBBS, Ph.D.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
mailto:shamimul.moula@gmail.com