the Pope, outdated and not helping
Why is the Catholic Church so afraid of condoms.
Dear Readers,
I find these reported HIV figures for the Philippines fascinating.
Total world HIV cases 2009 38,217,530
Thailand 620,000
Cambodia 85,000
Malaysia 98,000
Philippines 8,500 (??????)
The international HIV community is being told that a country (a sexually liberal country like the Philippines), with nearly 97 million people, NO adequate birth control laws to speak of and the most DISASTROUS anti condom policies imaginable, has only 8,000 HIV positive people?
And a Muslim country like Malaysia has 10 times more?
Really?
I find this information so depressing because I feel/know it's false.
Is the Philippine's government and the Catholic church serious with these HIV figures for the Philippines?
Now we all know these figures are NOT true.
They can't be because logic defies them.
HOW can this false HIV reporting continue in the Philippines?
It's been going on for over twenty years already.
It puzzles me and leaves me frustrated that no one discusses it openly.
I'm hoping that more advocates will take this false reporting issue up on their own blogs and start asking questions.
It's a potentially explosive issue that REALLY needs to be looked at much closer.
The Catholic church needs to keep it's grubby fingerprints OFF the Philippines HIV statistics.
Many people who suffer are NOT being counted.
Or cared for.
