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Uganda passing law that allows them to put homosexuals to death.
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RE: Uganda passing law that allows them to put homosexuals to death.
(November 15, 2012 at 8:24 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Then what were you advocatig that would help change conditions in Africa? Please be specific so I can know exactly what stupid piece of fundamentalist theory I get to rip apart.
If you automatically assume I'm going to be "wrong" then whatever I say you're going to claim a superior moral authority over it.

I already said this.
(November 15, 2012 at 3:09 am)Daniel Wrote: Don't try to set me up as someone I'm not. You have to meet people where they are, you can't expect non-Christians to accept Christian morals, if you care about the people you wish to help, you have to reach them in ways which will work for them.
And this.
(November 13, 2012 at 9:38 am)Daniel Wrote: In africa promiscuity, adultery and prostitution are pretty much normalized accepted civil behaviour.
Condoms can be very effective at preventing the spread of HIV - but, they can also be very ineffective. There are some African countries where the number of people infected with HIV is greater than 30%.

Nothing is more important or will work better than behavioural change. This starts with education about HIV and STI's, and HIV testing. They need to be made aware that being promiscuity is dangerous, even with condom use, and that they still need to get regularly tested for STI's even if they're using condoms. They also need to be made aware that condoms offer little to no protection unless they are used religiously.

Catching HIV is very difficuilt to begin with. Link. If you have unprotected sex with an HIV positive partner, you have a 1 in 900 chance of getting infected! Condoms give you an estimated 78% success rate with HIV (same link), thus decreasing your risk of getting infected from 1 in 900 to 1 in 4090.

Thus, the long-term impact of 100% condom usage in African countries (that number is purely hypothetical and not realistic) which presently have 30% of their population infected, would reduce HIV prevalence to around 7%. Does that number sound reasonable to you?

Well it doesn't sound reasonable to me. And that's exactly why you can't solve the problem with condoms alone. Yes condom use is one effective behavioural change, but on its own it isn't enough to reduce HIV prevalence from 30% to below 7% even in the long term. Even adding circumcision to every male won't drop the rate below 6% (even if 100% of the population was originally uncircumcised) as it only reduces the risk for men of contracting HIV and not women.
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RE: Uganda passing law that allows them to put homosexuals to death. - by Aractus - November 16, 2012 at 3:23 am

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