Ssempa, don’t decampaign condoms
Sep 26, 2007
EDITOR—I am concerned by the Sunday Vision article “I pray for condom users†by Martin Ssempa. <br>It is unfortunate that an AIDS activist can write an article subtly slanted to attack condom use.
EDITOR—I am concerned by the Sunday Vision article “I pray for condom users†by Martin Ssempa.
It is unfortunate that an AIDS activist can write an article subtly slanted to attack condom use.
One of the most important false statements he made was that condoms offer little help to those who use them in homosexual relations. It is a fact that condoms, correctly and consistently used, protect against HIV in sex between man and woman, and homosexual sex.
One of the most recent journal articles I have read on the subject is entitled “Condom usage not serosorting explain stable HIV incidence in Amsterdam gay men†(JAIDS August 15, 2007)
To state that condoms ‘offer little help’ for HIV prevention in homosexual sex is a lie.
And to support this with increased ‘bare-backing’ is incredible.
In Uganda, we have not had an HIV prevention programme for the gay community in the last 27 years of HIV. For an ‘AIDS activist’ to increase the misinformation and myths in that community with such a lie is totally incomprehensible. Condoms are important, for both gay sex, and heterosexual sex in HIV prevention.
Dr Paul Semugoma
kampala
It is unfortunate that an AIDS activist can write an article subtly slanted to attack condom use.
One of the most important false statements he made was that condoms offer little help to those who use them in homosexual relations. It is a fact that condoms, correctly and consistently used, protect against HIV in sex between man and woman, and homosexual sex.
One of the most recent journal articles I have read on the subject is entitled “Condom usage not serosorting explain stable HIV incidence in Amsterdam gay men†(JAIDS August 15, 2007)
To state that condoms ‘offer little help’ for HIV prevention in homosexual sex is a lie.
And to support this with increased ‘bare-backing’ is incredible.
In Uganda, we have not had an HIV prevention programme for the gay community in the last 27 years of HIV. For an ‘AIDS activist’ to increase the misinformation and myths in that community with such a lie is totally incomprehensible. Condoms are important, for both gay sex, and heterosexual sex in HIV prevention.
Dr Paul Semugoma
kampala