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For the faithful, fear of Aids comes second to fear of God

Posted by Features 22 Nov 2010

The Pope says it would be acceptable for a male prostitute to use a condom, but African Catholics do not necessarily agree

Pope Says Condoms to Stop AIDS May Be Acceptable

Posted by News 21 Nov 2010

Source: New York Times, 21 November 2010. Pope Benedict XVI has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS, the first Vatican exception to a long-held policy condemning condom use. The pope made the statement in a series of interviews with a German journalist, part of [...]

Catholic priest becomes unlikely sex guru

Posted by News 25 Oct 2010

Source: Global Post, 18 October 2010. Father Ksawery Knotz doesn’t see himself as a sexpert. Dressed in a brown habit of the Capuchin friars, he certainly doesn’t look like one. Yet, since the celibate Catholic priest started publishing his online sex guide in 2003, he has developed a healthy following of couples from all over [...]

AIDS Is a Kind of ‘Justice’ for Promiscuous Sex, Belgian Catholic Leader Claims

Posted by News 18 Oct 2010

Source: Politics Daily, 16 October 2010. The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals and missteps over the past year, and now its new leader, the conservative Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a fresh controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving “a sort of immanent justice” for [...]

Sex education, STIs and politicians make a toxic combination

Posted by Opinion, Reproductive health 11 Sep 2010

Should our response to the rising number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) be a call for more ignorance, as one MP appears to believe?

Abstinence program partners Chinese officials with U.S. evangelicals

Posted by News, Reproductive health 8 Sep 2010

Source: The Washington Post, 3 September 2010. If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China’s Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can’t have sex with him. And he’ll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank. In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are being trained with a [...]

Church vs state in Philippine sex education row

Posted by Reproductive health 6 Aug 2010

Source: BBC, 4 August 2010. A pilot project teaching sex education in schools is being rolled out across the Philippines. But the scheme is opposed by the powerful Catholic Church, as the BBC’s Kate McGeown reports. In a classroom in central Manila, a group of 11-year-olds are watching a video about the facts of life. [...]

Seeing is Believing: Questions about Faith-Based Organizations Involved in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

Posted by Features, Reproductive health 28 Jul 2010

Source: RH Reality Check, 16 July 2010. For many years, faith-based health providers have received enormous sums of money from both state-based and private entities to provide healthcare services. More recently, that healthcare has included treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS. Unfortunately, many of these providers do not provide a full range of [...]

Vatican criticizes condom machines in Rome school

Posted by News, Reproductive health 20 Jul 2010

Source: The Associated Press, 11 March 2010. ROME — The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome’s mayor saying it sends the wrong message. But the Keplero high [...]

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