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AFRICA: Vatican defends opposition to condom use
JOHANNESBURG, 3 December (PLUSNEWS) - The Vatican has issued a strong defence of the Roman Catholic Church's controversial position against the use of condoms in a new five-page statement.
Members of the Catholic clergy recently came under fire for advising people worldwide that condoms were permeable enough to allow HIV to pass through.
Despite scientific consensus that condoms were effective in preventing HIV transmission, the president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, said "fidelity, chastity and abstinence" were the most effective ways to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Barragan was quoted by Reuters as saying: "We have to present this as the main way for the effective prevention of infection and spread of HIV/AIDS, since the phenomenon of AIDS is a pathology of the spirit."
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MORE NEWS BRIEFS
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Recent AFRICA Reports
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IRIN PlusNews Weekly Issue 161, 26 December 2003 , 26/Dec/03
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IRIN PlusNews Weekly Issue 160, 19 December 2003, 19/Dec/03
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African conference looks at living with AIDS at home, 16/Dec/03
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UN agency identifies sites for HIV/AIDS centres, 15/Dec/03
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IRIN PlusNews Weekly Issue 159, 12 December 2003, 12/Dec/03
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National AIDS Commission of Malawi
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African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)
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Treatment Action Campaign
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
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AEGIS
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