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A SOLUTION TO THE SCOURGE OF AIDS

Health Canada reports that in the year 2000, infection rates in the man-to-man (homosexual) sex category increased by 14% and that the HIV virus has now mutated so that standard treatments no longer have an effect. This is the first increase since 1993, when the HIV rates had begun to recede.

The spread of this drug resistant mutant is happening much faster than had been predicted, affecting as many as one in five newly infected patients.

The number of HIV victims is expected to steadily increase, especially among homosexuals aged 25 to 44 years. (There was a 24% increase among homosexuals 30 to 34 years of age.) The blame for the increase is being placed on so-called "safe-sex fatigue," and the false sense of security created by the development, in 1996, of the multi-drug treatments AZT or other more potent drugs in combination with AZT, which have significantly lengthened life expectancy of AIDS patients.

Homosexuals, mostly young ones, who probably have not seen anyone die of AIDS, are not aware of just how toxic the drug medication is, and blithely continue on with their promiscuous lifestyle. The short-term side effects of the drugs, however, include body rashes, nausea, constant headaches and continued intestinal problems. The long-term effects include neurological disruption and organ failure. These drugs also come at a cost, averaging $12,000 to $15,000 a year per patient. Further, the daily régime required for this drug is hard to follow - not a pleasant scene!

Mindless Response to AIDS

The response to the escalating rate of AIDS in the homosexual community continues to be one of repeating the mindless mantra of so-called "safe-sex" by the use of a condom. Even those who should know better, such as Dr. Bill Cameron, Professor of Infectious Diseases at Ottawa General Hospital, claims that "there is only one way to prevent the spread of the mutated virus, and that is safer sex" (See Capital Xtra, September 14, 2001).

Since 1994, the federal Liberal government has invested $42.2 million a year in AIDS committees. The Canadian AIDS Society, however, continues to raise a chorus of demands for even more government funding to provide growing numbers of campaigns to promote the so-called safe-sex use of condoms. It is now apparent, however, that these programs are a waste of both time and money.

How do we know this? Surprisingly, the UN has told us so. In its report released on June 23, 2002, the Population Division of the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs has stated categorically that the ready availability of condoms does not significantly alter individuals' sexual behaviour. Apparently, condom use has not become popular despite its ready access, provided by the UN, which promotes and provides abundantly for its use. In fact, the UN Family Planning Agency (UNFPA) is the world's largest supplier of condoms, and UNFPA's AIDS-prevention program which had focused overwhelmingly on the promotion of condom use, has turned out to be a dismal failure

Similarly, despite the millions and millions spent on condom campaigns in Canada, condoms have continued to be avoided, and homosexual promiscuity continues unabated. Condoms are avoided because many homosexuals regard condoms as a barrier to intimacy. Also, homosexuals over the age of 40 are refusing to use condoms because they fear rejection by younger sexual partners if they insist on using them. Moreover, condoms are not a full protection against the HIV virus. They make only for "safer" sex, not "safe" sex.

The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) for example, has decided to do something about the AIDS problem. It recently commenced an ad campaign targeting those who are AIDS positive, requesting them to take responsibility and fight against AIDS by protecting their partners and ensuring they use condoms. Previously, all the AIDS campaigns have been directed towards those who are AIDS negative to ensure their partners use condoms. How novel it would be if campaigns were directed towards truly safe sex, which means abstinence or the very least, monogamous sexual behaviour.

The Solution to the AIDS Problem

The UN report on AIDS has put forward the only solution to the spread of AIDS. The solution is a significant behavioural change in favour of monogamous relationships.

This recommended solution has proven successful according to a Harvard University study which credits abstinence education with significant effectiveness in reducing AIDS in Uganda, where the HIV infection rate dropped 50% between the years 1992 and 2000. Uganda used billboards, radio announcements, and chastity-based curricula to promote abstinence and faithfulness. As a result, Uganda has now become the model for worldwide AIDS prevention.

The Harvard study found that from the late 1980s to 2001, the number of pregnant women infected with HIV dropped in Uganda from 21.2 % to 6.2%. By contrast, in neighbouring Botswana, where condoms are officially promoted as the solution rather than part of the problem, 30% of pregnant women were found to be HIV-positive in 2001.

"Much of the program's success," according to the Harvard study, "is due to the nation's willingness to look beyond the sexual revolution to the past, before the adoption of corrupt Western sexual mores." The study found Ugandan adults were less promiscuous from 1989 to 2000; of women 15 and older, those reporting multiple sexual partners dropped from 18.4% to 2.5%.

Homosexual Reaction to Study

As proven in Uganda, AIDS is one disease that is totally preventable by behaviour and lifestyle. Homosexual activists, however, refuse to hear of it. The homosexuals want to continue their sexually promiscuous lifestyle regardless of its consequences. For example, at the 14th International AIDS Conference held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2002, for over half an hour, homosexual activists booed, shouted, blew whistles, and chanted through megaphones to drown out US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, for the alleged failure of the US to hand over even more money to continue a demented campaign for condom use as a solution to the AIDS problem.

The cruel and short-sighted vision of the homosexual activists clearly shows, not only their hugely totalitarian thrust in refusing to hear a different viewpoint, but also an obdurate unwillingness to restrain their pleasure-seeking and destructive behaviour. As stated in an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen (July 30, 2002):

… if gay leaders truly want to mitigate the ravages of the disease, they ought to acknowledge that money is not the only answer. The time has come to look inward, to their own community, and address the reasons for the denial that can be found there.

Only then will we be able to see an effective solution to the scourge of AIDS.

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