Kevin Saldanha wrote : <'One of the world's largest conferences on HIV/AIDS has just concluded in Toronto with the overwhelming opinion that abstinence and fidelity (regardless of what Mario says) is not working'>
response from jc: wrt HIV transmission, The above from Kevin Saldanha is misleading. NOBODY can conclude that abstinence and fidelity does not work. I'd like to ask: HOW can HIV spread (with minor exceptions - vide infra) in a situation of Abstinence and Fidelity? What has been criticised is the fairy tale that 100% abstinence and fidelity actually exists or will ever exist. The fairy tale right-wingers and their equally stupid left wingers are holding the world's children and the world's blood supply at ransom with their diametrically opposite positions. There is a compromise which will benefit everyone. One which promotes extramarital Abstinence and intramarital Fidelity with the judicious use of Condoms, and the availability of inexpensive antiHIV medications + proper care for the HIV infected. BUT, it appears that these extreme wingnuts from the right and the left .... have their own intolerant agenda. The following was my response to the holyspiritinteractive email I received yesterday good wishes jc JC's response to response to the holyspiritinteractive: I wish our Catholic sites would stop this bogus nonsense. It is embarassing for me as a physician to sit in meetings ....and be told about this sort of stuff from allegedly Catholic publications. Here is a simple scenario for the so called Catholic chaps who have their head in the sand : Woman is HIV negative; Her husband is HIV +ve (He is a surgeon who got accidentaly infected) What should they do? .... Abstain from sexual contact?, use the condom? or just seek a divorce? good wishes jc something for the Catholic sites to read : The Church in a Lurch http://www.colaco.net/3/church-lurch.htm ====== Kevin Saldanha had written: One of the world's largest conferences on HIV/AIDS has just concluded in Toronto with the overwhelming opinion that abstinence and fidelity (regardless of what Mario says) is not working for countries which are suffering heavily from the spread of this immunosuppressive virus. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=49869 _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
