The Truth About Condoms?
According to Bill Gates, they prevent the experience of sexual pleasure. Madonna thinks condoms will save Africans from HIV/AIDS. The CDC thinks homosexuals should be using them more… Interesting article on Bill Gates’ search for a better condom. Excerpt below: Sex researcher Dr. Rachel Jones at the Guttmacher Institute recently published a study in the [...]
Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Anti-Prostitution Policy for AIDS Relief
Abortion advocates blame the Helms amendment and the Mexico City policy for contributing to abortion stigma — likewise some HIV/AIDS advocates blame a PEPFAR anti-prostitution policy for contributing to the stigma that’s associated with prostitution. Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening arguments in the case of USAID v. AOSI — a case challenging [...]
Offensive USAID-Funded Ad Pulled in Kenya After Public Outcry
Just one day after USAID released a progress report on development reform, a US and UK funded AIDS prevention ad was pulled for being offensive and immoral for its promotion of extramarital affairs. While Christian and Muslim religious leaders called on the Communications Commission of Kenya to remove the ad from airwaves, it was a [...]
Group Claims Obama Admin Foreign Policy and UN Pushing Sexual Rights Agenda
An International Family advocacy group has launched a campaign to expose diplomatic pressure directed toward poor developing countries to advance sexual rights including withholding humanitarian aid to assure it is done. Family Watch International in collaboration with the Foundation for African Culture and Heritage, and other pro-family organizations released a documentary Cultural Imperialism: The Sexual Rights Agenda on You Tube [...]
Polygamists and Sexual Rights
Marriage advocates warn that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy. Lest we forget why polygamy is not a good thing, this article shows how it degrades women and the marriage bond. Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal This comment, however, should put Western elites in their place who champion ‘sexual rights’: “Lamine Camara, 22, a student [...]
Sabotaging Successful HIV/AIDS Prevention
Uganda was the great success story in reducing HIV/AIDS. Now, a member of the generation that benefited worries that Uganda’s “image of reversing the scourge in the early 1990’s has since dissipated.” Why? Because messages of abstinence and fidelity – the keys to preventing HIV/AIDS – have been abandoned as money flows to groups that [...]
Lancet Gets Political on Homosexual HIV/AIDS Epidemic
The Lancet has launched a new frontier for homosexual activism with its latest series on the AIDS epidemic among homosexuals, calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality and the combating of homophobia through law, culture and in the provision of health services to MSMs, that is, men who have sex with men. The lingo chosen by [...]
UN Women Allowed to Join UNAIDS
When UN Women reached its one year anniversary last year, it was met with a scathing review in The Nation. Long-time UN advocate Barbara Crossette detailed the travails of the new UN agency. Internal issues, such as employee in-fighting, plagued UN Women, as well as external. Backers felt governments and UN higher-ups lacked respect for the women’s agency. Paula Donovan of [...]
Poll: Human Rights Laws a License for Criminals
The Daily Mail reports on a new poll finding an astonishing 72% of Britons agree with the statement “human rights have become a charter for criminals and the undeserving.” It takes a heap of bad publicity to get this kind of strong public rejection. In this case, it is well-deserved. Britons have seen their country [...]
The European Parliament’s Week For Life 2012: The Program
“Obama Wars” Over Contraception Move to U.N. Front, and the Administration Loses a Battle
The annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting broke up today after failing to reach consensus on “agreed conclusions” – a very rare occurrence. The impasse was due to the insistence by the United States delegation on changing language regarding “family planning” that had been agreed upon and in continuous use since [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
Codoms are a fantasy this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We all know it as Fat Tuesday, Mardis Gras, or perhpas even Shrove Tuesday but in Brazil the Tuesday before Lent is the end of Carnaval, which began last Friday, and consists of a weekend long cultural festival devoted to samba lines, dancing, vacations at the beach, and for some, drunken debauchery often ending in [...]
VIDEO: Vulgarity of UNFPA “Condomize” Campaign
The UNFPA initiative, the Condomize Campaign is again at it during ICASA 2011 (16th International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa). The UNFPA and Co. continue to recklessly promote Condom use as an effective AIDS and STI prevention method. Not only are they endangering the lives of billions of people, they do it so [...]
European Parliament resolves to fight HIV/AIDS through … abortion!
Fortunately, hardly any citizen ever reads the pompous yet irremediably silly resolutions through which the European Parliament lets the world know about its opinion on all matters that fall outside its competence. And even more fortunately, fighting AIDS is not one of the responsibilities of the European Parliament. Last week, the Parliament commemorated World AIDS [...]
Life Site News Analysis: “At UN, Vatican reaffirms stance against condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention”
Life site has analysis of the Vatican’s recent intervention on the third committee that we were following closely last Tuesday: “At United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Vatican representative Fr. Philip Bené reiterated the long-held position of the Holy See against the use of condoms, even for AIDS prevention. While the position has had some accuse the [...]
New Study: Contraceptives Double Risk of HIV/AIDS
The New York Times front page today carried the story of a new study showing that injectible contraceptives double the risk of contracting HIV. The contraceptive is the most popular in eastern and southern Africa (used by some 12 million women). Women who are HIV positive double the chance they will infect their partner. What [...]
Bundling and Bumbling about HIV/AIDS at the UN
The UN’s high-level conference on HIV/AIDS began on Wednesday with fanfare and a veritable parade of delegates, scientists, activists, and UN bureaucrats. In keeping with what is now standard procedure, there was a panel integrating a “gender-mainstreamed” perspective into the discussion: “Women, Girls, and HIV.” The panelists told the audience with authority and enthusiasm that [...]
Finally Following the Vatican’s Lead on AIDS?
Catholic News Agency reported earlier this week on the growing appreciation for the Catholic approach to combatting the spread of HIV/AIDS. “We are at the beginning of a convergence in the sense that functionaries of international institutions and organizations and people from faith-based groups are talking across the lines and coming to respect each other [...]