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Condoms and AIDS: Is the Pope Right or Just "Horrifically Ignorant"?

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  • Ibid.
  • Ibid., 346.
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  • Ibid., 15, 19.
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  • Ibid., 1628.
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  • Ibid., 156.
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  • Ibid., emphasis added. A Canadian study found that “televised AIDS messages from the Ontario Ministry of Health made respondents more likely to use condoms and less inclined to avoid casual sexual partners.” W-J Ng, “The Impact of Public Service Announcements on AIDS Risk Perception and Preventive Health Behaviours,” Ph.D. diss. (Kingston, Ontario: Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, 1992), cited in G. Wilde, Target Risk (Toronto, Ontario: PDE Publications, 1994), http://psyc.queensu.ca/target/.
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  • Green, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, 106. Green cites the following studies as showing higher rates of STD or HIV infections among inconstant condom users than among condom nonusers: W.W. Darrow, “Condom Use and Use-Effectiveness in High-Risk Populations,” Sexually Transmitted Diseases 16 (1989), 157–160; N. Hearst and Chen, Condoms for AIDS Prevention in the Developing World: A Review of the Scientific Literature (Geneva: UNAIDS, 2003); J.M. Mann et al., “HIV Infection and Associated Risk Factors in Female Prostitutes in Kinshasa, Zaire,” AIDS 2 (1988): 249–254; M.T. Mbizvo et al., “Condom Use and the Risk of HIV Infection: Who Is Being Protected?” Central African Journal of Medicine 40:11 (1994): 294–299; A Saracco et al., “Man to Woman Sexual Transmission of HIV: Longitudinal Study of 343 Steady Partners of Infected Men,” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 6 (1993): 497–502; and T.E. Taha et al., “Reported Condom Use Is Not Associated with Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Malawi,” AIDS 10 (1996): 207–212.
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  • Cassell, “Risk Compensation,” 605–607.
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  • J. Shelton et al., “Partner Reduction Is Crucial for Balanced ‘ABC’ Approach to HIV Prevention,” British Medical Journal 328 (2004): 891.
  • Ibid., 892.
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  • Ibid., 273; and E. Asamoah-Odei et al., “ecent Trends in HIV Prevalence Among Pregnant Women in Sub-Saharan Africa,” AIDScience 3 (2003), http://aidscience.org/Articles/AIDScience037.asp.
  • Timothy C. Morgan, “ondoms, HIV, and Pope Benedict,” Christianity Today, March 20, 2009, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/marchweb-only/111-53.0.html.
  • Ibid.; see also Edward C. Green, 典he Pope May Be Right, Washington Post, March 29, 2009, A15, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702825_pf.html. Green may be referring to the following articles from Science, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, and Studies in Family Planning: Stoneburner and Low-Beer, “opulation-Level Declines,” 714–18; D. Halperin et al., “he Time Has Come for Common Ground on Preventing Sexual Transmission of HIV,” The Lancet 364 (2004): 1913–915; Shelton et al., “artner Reduction Is Crucial,” 891–93; and Norman Hearst and S. Chen, “ondom Promotion for AIDS Prevention in the Developing World: Is It Working?” Studies in Family Planning 35 (2004): 39–7.
  • Halperin et al., “The Time has Come for Common Ground,” 1913–1915.
  • Ibid.

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