 willhelm says: "Outside Uganda, we have few good models of how to promote fidelity, since attempts to advocate deep changes in behavior have been almost entirely absent from programs supported by the major Western donors and by AIDS celebrities. Yet Christian churches—indeed, most faith communities—have a comparative advantage in promoting the needed types of behavior change, since these behaviors conform to their moral, ethical, and scriptural teachings. What the churches are inclined to do anyway turns out to be what works best in AIDS prevention." There is only one way to not get AIDS via sexual transmission and that is by avoiding sex. If two people who do not have AIDS do not have sexual intercourse with anyone else, then they too will not contract AIDS via sexual transmission. The question is how does one change behavior such that people will remain monogamous? The instinct that is the sex drive is one of the more difficult to overcome, though obviously it can be. Near certain contraction of AIDS may well also be a motivator. But for a certain segment of the population, condoms make sense to prevent transmission. Then the question becomes, how do you promote monogamy and abstinence as superior to condoms (which it is) wit... |
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