Letters

AIDS Prevention

Dr Arnold Jago

Contents - May 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics - Michael Gilchrist Two changes: Bishop Jarrett explains upcoming Mass changes - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett News: The Church Around the World Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response - Fr Andrew Wise Interview: Positive impact of Pope's decree on the Latin Mass - Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos Green sisters: New-look US religious: Al Gore's latest 'eco-justice' disciples - AD2000 REPORT Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion! - Michael Gilchrist FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice? - Lucy Tucker Magisterium: When is it infallible? - John Young Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne - Br Barry Coldrey Letters: Church architecture - Terry Parkhouse Letters: AIDS Prevention - Dr Arnold Jago Letters: Altar rails - John Murray Letters: Receiving Communion - Charles Haber Letters: Stations of the Cross - John D. Wightman Letters: Brisbane - Franklin J. Wood Letters: Cosmic Liturgy - Grahame Fallon Books: Irish journalist exposes 'Kathy's Story' book and movie as fabrications - Gary Brady (reviewer) Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson - Philip Trower (reviewer) Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 Books Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

New AIDS cases per year have doubled in Australia over the past ten years and University of NSW researchers predict a further rise of 70 percent in the next few years (Herald Sun, 3 March 2008).

Things are getting worse because we focus on condom use.

Yet a few nations have falling HlV-infection rates - including Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe which have all made their central message 'partner reduction', i.e., faithfulness to husband, wife or 'partner'. Nearby condom-prom- oting South Africa has a high and un-improving infection rate.

UN agency, UNAIDS, says 'prevention campaigns relying primarily on condoms have not been responsible for turning around any generalised epidemic' (Internet website included in letter).

If a government focused its anti-obesity campaign on weight- loss pills, never mentioning eating reduction - what would we call them?

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 4 (May 2008), p. 14