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Linknet-Columns.com features articles and weekly syndicated columns in specific areas of interest such as Marketing, Travel, Health, Business Opportunities, Product Features, Golf. Advertise with Linknet. Get links and create a powerful online presence. Thai Condoms for Africa denounced by ArchbishopJan 24, 2006 - Linknet Health News Thai Condoms for Africa denounced by Archbishop January 24, 2006 - Linknet Health NewsThailand to donate 50,000 condoms to Africa In news out of Thailand, the government announced they were donating 50,000 condoms to seven African countries as part of their "forward engagement" program to help with the UN effort to fight HIV/Aids in Africa. The condoms will be provided by Thailand's foreign and health ministries and shipped by the United Nations Development Programme to Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most heavily infected area in the world. An estimated 25.8 million people had been infected by HIV at the end of 2005 and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred during last year. Thailand itself has slowed the spread of HIV, but still about 1 in 100 Thais - about 550 000 - are infected with HIV. Aids has become the leading cause of death in Thailand. Apart from abstaining from sexual contact altogether, the use of condoms is the only effective means to help prevent the spread of HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. Donation of condoms condemned by Nigerian Archbishop In spite of its endorsement by the U.N. the condom donation annouced by the Thai government has been vigorously condemned by Nigerian Archbishop Anthony Cardinal Okogie. He described the move as immoral and quite likely to promote irresponsible sex and promiscuity. In a press release he said, "Do they know the effect of the production to the youths and the nation? The government should fight poverty, hunger, sicknesses, diseases, and the lack of social amenities plaguing the nation, instead of fighting AIDS with condom production," he stated. He also opposed any NACA (National Action Committee on Aids) Bill before the Nigerian National Assembly that included manufacturing of condoms in Nigeria, saying; "it will encourage immorality, sex on demand, promiscuity, irresponsibility and prostitution. Condom, knowingly and intentionally, offends the ends of marriage, which is procreation and says no to the bearing of children but promiscuity. "It is unfortunate that while other embassies are promoting trade, bilateral relations, we are encouraging cheap money and cheap production of condoms to encourage our youths on immorality." Visit the No. 1 online condom shop in the U.K. Healthy Living Blog
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