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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Namibia High Court Rules in Favor of Sterilized HIV Women
The Namibian High Court ruled in favor of 3 HIV-positve women who were coerced into receiving sterilizations when they went to state hospitals to have their babies. The women reported that they went to the hospital to have a caesarean section since they were HIV and wanted to prevent transmission to their child. While at the hospital [...]
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 [...]
Sovereignty in Action: Beating Back Beaurocratic Inertia at the UN
Sovereignty is a word that isn’t used within the UN superstructure, its bureaucracies, thousands of documents, reports and resolutions and frankly even UN member states. The UN system always tries to work towards achieving consensus, and to merely mention that each and every individual state has a the power and sovereign prerogative to undo consensus [...]
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 [...]
European Court of Human Rights: Critics of Homosexuality don’t enjoy freedom of opinion
In Sweden, critics of homosexuality risk being sent to jail. And the European Court of Human Rights, demonstrating once again its complete and utter failure to protect the fundamental rights enshrined in the European Rights Convention, finds that this constitutes no violation of the freedom of opinion. The facts of the case (Vejdeland and others [...]
Motion in the European Parliament links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS
On Thursday 1 December, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a motion which links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS. According to the SPUC, the motion is “yet another attempt by the international pro-abortion lobby to secure recognition of abortion as a universal, fundamental human right, under the guise of sexual and reproductive health”. [...]
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 [...]
IPPF and Irresponsibility
As part of their “Girls Decide” series, IPPF distributed a brochure at this year’s United Nations High Level Meeting on Youth reminiscent of the “Healthy Happy and Hot” brochure distributed last year. “What Do I do if I am Living with HIV and…” is intended to instruct young women about how HIV affects (or doesn’t [...]
Top abortion advocate says pro-lifers won at 2 UN conferences
In this week’s interview in the Huffington Post, Adrienne Germain says abortion advocates lost ground at two recent UN meetings. I met Germain at the Commission on Population and Development where she was a delegate for the US. Based upon my own observations, she has the important role of some of the pro-life/pro-family delegations correct [...]
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 [...]
Shielding Youth Through Exposure?
Just in time for the upcoming conference on HIV/AIDS, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and a host of other UN agencies released a report yesterday, entitled “Opportunity in Crisis,” on preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents aged 10-24. While the report is relatively extensive in outlining the varied reasons for the prevalence of HIV infection among different populations of young [...]
The Need for a Real Prevention Revolution
Last week UNAIDS hosted a Commission on AIDS Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of the programming, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) partnered with UNAIDS in sponsoring a “condom march” through the streets of Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s largest and fastest-growing suburb. In a press release, UNAIDS explained that the condom march & distribution was [...]
Rights & Risks in Mississippi
Human Rights Watch recently released a publication on HIV/AIDS in Mississippi entitled “Rights at Risk,” which focuses on the tragic HIV/AIDS prevalence and lack of access to care in the southern state. The report claims that abstinence-only sex education curriculums, especially those that restrict condom demonstration in class, as well as those that do not [...]
Global Fund faces corruption charges
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria was stung with charges of a massive corruption scandal yesterday. A “$21.7 billion health fund championed by the rich and famous has come under harsh scrutiny amid revelations it’s bleeding money to corruption,” AP reported. Population activists are watching developments closely. They are pushing to hitch [...]