sexta-feira, 20 de março de 2009

Em relação ao preservativo em África

‘We have found no consistent associations between condom use and lower HIV-infection rates, which, 25 years into the pandemic, we should be seeing if this intervention was working.”

So notes Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, in response to papal press comments en route to Africa this week.

“The pope is correct,” Green told National Review Online Wednesday, “or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope’s comments. He stresses that “condoms have been proven to not be effective at the ‘level of population.’”

“There is,” Green adds, “a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates. This may be due in part to a phenomenon known as risk compensation, meaning that when one uses a risk-reduction ‘technology’ such as condoms, one often loses the benefit (reduction in risk) by ‘compensating’ or taking greater chances than one would take without the risk-reduction technology.”

Green added: “I also noticed that the pope said ‘monogamy’ was the best single answer to African AIDS, rather than ‘abstinence.’ The best and latest empirical evidence indeed shows that reduction in multiple and concurrent sexual partners is the most important single behavior change associated with reduction in HIV-infection rates (the other major factor is male circumcision).” Entrevista toda aqui


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2 comentários:

Senzhugo disse...

A ignorância dos nossos opinion makers é um espanto, pelo menos dos que tenho lido e escutado.

Bastou estar um pouco mais atento para perceber que a mensagem do Papa em Camarões foi natural e completamente lógica.

O nosso mundo olha para o preservativo como único método e o mais eficaz para o combate à doença. Ai de quem disser o contrário!

Vá lá que os africanos já perceberam que os ocidentais têm a mania que são chicos espertos e decidiram eles próprios enveredar pelo caminho mais curto e eficaz para evitar o risco de contágio.

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