One year later, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, I believe it's helpful to revisit just what the Pope had to
say about condom usage and the HIV / AIDS crisis and how we can best respond....
Not exact matches
And if the Catholic church spreads lies
about condoms by
saying the opposite, then the church is absolutely to blame.
The students, particularly girls,
said they were too suspicious or embarrassed to talk to school nurses
about sex or ask
about condoms.
Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them
condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any
say in the matter or necessarily even knowing
about it.
«One of the other key findings is that, immediately after the intervention, HEART participants were 12.5 percent more confident
about their ability to obtain and use
condoms,» Widman
says.
«This is important because there's a robust body of research showing that the ability to talk
about sexual health with a partner, such as a willingness to talk
about condoms, is one of the strongest predictors of whether a couple will engage in safer sex,»
says Laura Widman, lead author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor of psychology at NC State.
When asked
about their last sexual encounter, only 50 per cent
said their partner had used a
condom.
Sidibé
says machismo
about using
condoms and taking HIV tests also keeps men from seeking care.
«Studies find that kids in abstinence - only programs have negative, biased views
about whether
condoms work,» she
says.
«There's been some speculation
about whether teenagers were substituting oral or anal sex for vaginal sex and I found that wasn't so,»
says Rosenbaum, «but I did uphold a previous finding that they are less likely to use birth control and drastically less likely in fact to use
condoms — it's a ten percentage point difference.»
Ghimenti
says that her daughter received no information
about condoms, birth control or preventing STIs in health class and that lack of information presented a health risk for students.
In the sex class we have to take by school law where they showed
condoms and scared us
about AIDS, they
said, «Sexuality is the most confusing thing
about being a teenager.»
They're
about as useful as a
condom with a hole in it, of course, but like I've
said before I can't help but be amused and delighted by being able to have all my tech light up in the same color.
PPLM encourages individuals to start a dialogue with their partners
about condom use,»
said Dianne Luby, President / CEO of PPLM.