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Abstinence is not contagious

The only country that shows real progress against this disease is fighting Uganda through the promotion of abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage

Author: Luis Olivera
Arvo.net, 07.07.2003

The Italian minister said, full of common sense a few years ago. But it was as if speaking only for the deaf. His words are gone with the wind, though the facts have given the reason .. It is no secret to anyone that Sub Saharan Africa is the victim of a widespread AIDS epidemic. The statistics published in 2006 by UNAIDS (United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS), estimated that 24.5 million people in that region were seropositive at the end of 2005, with 2.7 million new cases only in that year.

Desperate to stop the spread of this disease, which is poised to become the most destructive pest of all time, countries in Africa hit by AIDS have looked to the West. However, the assistance they have received seems to have been more harmful than good. Aid agencies in the West, dominated by secular-minded, have bombarded the mainland with liberal programs of sex education and condoms, wrote Colin Mason, Director of Communications of the Population Research Institute. According to UNAIDS, the infection rates HIV in Africa continue to increase, suggesting that such programs, instead of stopping the spread of the disease, are actually helping to transmit encouraging risky behavior.

was explained in specialized international forums. But his representatives were booed by those interested in maintaining the status quo today. Only one African country, Uganda has successfully fought AIDS. The rate of HIV prevalence has fallen dramatically in recent years. In 1992 over 18% of adults under analysis in the test was positive for the AIDS virus. In late 2005, only 6.7% were positive. No other country has experienced a decline comparable to it. How did it so quickly? Western institutions that provide help, eager to justify their programs, falsely attribute the decline to sex education and condom use. However, Ugandans themselves have a much more simple. History can be summarized in one word: abstinence. But we know that there are none so blind as those who will not see?

The unsung hero of the victory of Uganda on AIDS is a Catholic nun named Sister Miriam Duggan, MD At the beginning of the fight against this deadly disease, she developed a program called "Education for Life, "which encourages people to live in sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it. Educating people about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and its deadly consequences, "Education for Life" has helped change the mentality of the people of Uganda. She and her colleagues insist that this program together with the government's willingness to accept abstinence education is what has helped reduce the AIDS epidemic in Uganda.

"I think today must be very confusing for young people to answer the question? What path should take?" Said Thandi Hadebe, a teacher education program for Life. "And this is where I think we fail our young people because we give lot of conflicting information." Hadebe because of the AIDS epidemic to the indiscriminate promotion of condoms and the various messages of "safe sex" sent by educators. Against

challenges, have launched new initiatives, with imagination: Education for life testing a different approach.

"We emphasize the aspect of freedom as part of them, and can use it to protect themselves," says Fr Andrew Shjngange, another teacher in the program. A new documentary called? The change has already begun? celebrates the victory of life and common sense.

Developed by Bishop Hugh Slattery of the Diocese of Tzaneen (South Africa), this documentary tells the story of Sister Miriam and explains how it works in practice its program. In it, Bishop Slattery describes the work of faith-based organizations dealing with the social consequences of HIV / AIDS. Naturally, it is people of faith that is heroic solidarity with those infected in their homes, and staff of orphanages full of orphans and children crying. Posts

talk knowingly, few people know better than Bishop Slattery the problems of HIV / AIDS. The number of adults with HIV in South Africa was 18.8% at the end of 2005, almost the same as in Uganda 15 years ago. The "Education for Life" has been introduced into his diocese and was spread throughout South Africa. The amazing success of Uganda in fighting the spread of AIDS can be attributed to this revolutionary approach to the problem through the promotion of sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it.

realism should be imposed to the ideology of mercantilism disguised "(AIDS) is a threat to all civilization, is a threat to our future, is an issue that moves us to ask: Will there be new generations here in the future, "says Bishop Slattery. "It sounds like that pessimistic seen, but in reality, the problem is very serious, if you see the statistics."

"It is becoming more evident every day that the Western world's obsession with the promotion of condoms was severely hampering the efforts of African countries to effectively manage HIV / AIDS," says Bishop Slattery. "The only country that shows real progress against this disease is fighting Uganda" through the promotion of abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage. The Western world refuses to accept and to highlight this tremendous achievement. On the contrary, are doing everything they can to ruin it by using all available means to promote condoms in this country against the wishes of the leaders of his government.

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An unusual sense

"I think so since he was 14 years. At that time I had seen where sexual frivolity had enough of my classmates.

"Since my teens I thought the sexual freedom that I most wanted is to one day be happily married. And I thought I had to keep me for marriage, and have never had the slightest doubt about my decision.

And I thought I should marry a man who had a sufficiently high concept of his future wife to be kept full for her. Not that this is the only thing I value in a man, but I find it much easier to trust someone like that. "

The speaker was a brilliant young British lawyer named Angela Ellis-Jones, during a televised debate on the BBC. Defended an opinion striking unusual ease (at least in this program.)

"Since then, Ellis-Jones continued," I was clear that when separated from marriage and sex, blurs the difference between being married and not pregnant, and, unwittingly, that person is devalued the very idea of \u200b\u200bmarriage .

"chastity before marriage is an important issue. The more lightly give one's body, the less value will sex. Who truly love someone, you want to marry her. Sex without marriage is necessarily tentative, suggests that a test that is still pending if someone gets better, and I value too much to let a man treat me that way.

"Perhaps the attitude that seems to keep me isolated, but I think not: I think the wise man will only see on these principles a matter of greater appreciation."

face an uncertain future

Some think it is realistic to seek erotic gratification as soon as possible, and providing them to others. Say prefer the 'bird in hand "to an ideal love to see it as something far away. And while it is understandable that a person is dazzled by the immediate gratification and prefer anything that promises regarded as uncertain, it seems clear that the task of building one's life is precisely the desire to open new horizons, to learn to value what not yet have in hand but, by value, we are called to reach. So I understood this young British lawyer.

be impacted by the desire to satisfy our instincts is something really valuable from achieving it. Sexual activity outside its proper context to an instinctive response that suddenly ignites and then goes away. It is a blaze so intense as fleeting, barely leaves nothing behind, and that easily leads to a narrow circle of eroticism in their quest always dissatisfied, consider other higher concepts of love are just a dream, if not taboo or something out of repression.

Socrates and human fulfillment

Socrates spoke of an inner voice speaking to him, advised him, rebuked him, urging him to seek the truth. That voice is the most lucid of ourselves, and warns us that we should not sit on mere feelings, but seek truth in them, their true value, and not the one at hand, but the deepest.

is not, therefore, to control the instinctive tendencies so stoic. It is ardently higher values. Rather than control of desires, we should speak of a straight search for human fulfillment. This is not to suppress the trends, but knowing guide them. A conductor does not repress any instrumentalist, but points to each route to be followed to perform its function fully so, in a moment of silence will, other will be aligned with other instruments, and sometimes must play a strong role.

When someone discovers the reality of love, he is certain of having discovered a wonderful land hitherto unknown and unsuspected. It is considered happy and graceful, and rightly so. It's a pity not to accommodate the natural rate of maturation of love, some want to eat the green fruit and lose the goal that might have come to achieve.

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messages that miss the mark

Aceprensa (July 4, 2007)
Signed by Rafael Serrano

As in many other countries, British health authorities multiply advertising campaigns for citizens health care. The Economist (23-06-2007) criticizes the excessive zeal and inefficient. The ruling was not really on the recommendations, increasingly vigorous, fall on deaf ears rather not make a dent in those who should follow but punish the eardrums of those who do not need.

Rich countries have overcome the main causes of death in the past: poverty, cold, lack of hygiene. Now from health threats including certain "lifestyles" and the campaign seek to change. Many people and has left or has not acquired, under the influence of the campaigns or for other reasons, but is an important attached to other bad habits. Then the official propaganda up the volume and tone of the warnings, without addressing the cause of the deafness of the recalcitrant and the risk of confusing or alienating those who are not at risk than is advised.

snuff Drinking and provide clear examples. The British Ministry of Health has just launched a "national strategy against alcohol" with her claims that drinking too much is so frowned upon in many circles as smoking. Has urged the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages to include warnings on the labels of all products, with the threat to impose by law if you do not obey. At the same time has increased the recommendations for pregnant women: before them said he did not spend two drinks per week, now should not try or drop from trying to conceive until they give birth. Such drastic rules and is known medical baseless discredit, harass moderate drinkers, but will convince those who overindulge.

July 1 came into force in England a total ban on smoking in virtually all places of public use. It also includes company cars when they have more than one passenger. With an ordinance so forceful and generally missing an undue burden on the innocent. Many establishments affected by the new law have never allowed smoking, such as churches or gyms, yet are required to post conspicuous signs of "No Smoking", or face a fine of up to one thousand pounds.

This tactic of shooting the package does not reach the recalcitrant. The campaigns also prove to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), that information does not cite The Economist. Spread the condom is a good measure to limit damage to the environment of prostitution, where it is very difficult to achieve something better. But it makes sense to say to all young people who use it in a system, assuming they are in danger, as if the ETS were contagious. UNAIDS data show that most HIV infections occur in "clusters risk ", not the general population (see Aceprensa 129/06). The campaigns for "safe sex" are not the target. STDs have not slowed or teenage pregnancies, as shown, for example, the British experience (see Aceprensa 53/04) or English (see Aceprensa 91/06, 128/04 ). Instead, a comprehensive strategy that addresses the risks of promiscuity, as in Uganda, has had considerable success (see Aceprensa 53/06).

The Economist suggests that the Ministry cry less and go to the root. Unhealthy habits are disproportionately concentrated in the lower classes. It is easier and more effective to attack the relationship between health and social position to point directly to the behaviors. For example, other possibilities should be made available to the residents of neighborhoods where many lack the time or money to do better than spend hours racked in a pub. It would also be useful to give more support to families, as the unhealthy habits are more common in single parent households and children of broken marriages, a year ago marked the former British premier Tony Blair to announce a plan to combat marginalization ( see Aceprensa 96/06).
If a Ministry of Health would know the relationship between health and family, maybe give young people with better advice.