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Article: Right of Reply: Julian Filochowski The director of Cafod responds to a leading article that praised the views of Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, on the Catholic church
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2000
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THE EDITORIAL coverage of Aids in The Independent is
contradictory. You blame the Catholic church's stance on condoms for
the HIV/Aids pandemic in Africa. You then argue that the church's
position is widely ignored. You can't have it both ways.
To say that condoms are the sole and simple solution to HIV/Aids
in Africa is wrong and misleading. Condoms are obtainable in many
African countries; European aid programmes pay for them.
Nevertheless, HIV/Aids infection rates continue to rise alarmingly
there. Even in the US and Britain there have been increases in the
rate of infections in certain groups, despite condoms being freely
available.
The message coming out of the International Aids ...