Africans in Uganda are pleading for rich, powerful, and liberal Western entities to quit pushing their disastrous pro-condom, pro-”sex with anyone” agenda on them, because it is causing AIDS to increase.
Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) opposition to abstinence may resonate with liberal leaders, but it isn’t winning over many African converts. The California congressman, who, for seven years, has claimed that condoms are the most effective method for curbing disease, has finally met his match in Uganda, where the head of the country’s National AIDS Prevention Committee is calling on Americans to “let his people go” and allow Africans to prevent AIDS with what works — namely, abstinence.
Ugandan Sam Ruteikara in the Washington Post today:
In the late 1980s, before international experts arrived to tell us we had it all “wrong,” we in Uganda devised a practical campaign to prevent the spread of HIV. We recognized that population-wide AIDS epidemics in Africa were driven by people having sex with more than one regular partner. Therefore, we urged people to be faithful. Our campaign was called ABC (Abstain, or Be Faithful, or use Condoms), but our main message was: Stick to one partner. We promoted condoms only as a last resort.
Because we knew what to do in our country, we succeeded. The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. But international AIDS experts who came to Uganda said we were wrong to try to limit people’s sexual freedom. Worse, they had the financial power to force their casual-sex agendas upon us.
