The Catholic church and HIV/AIDS: 'Banning Condoms Kills' - Women and Health - Brief Article
WIN News, Spring, 2002
FROM 'IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES', AN INTERNATIONAL NEWS ROUNDUP, VOL. 6, NO. 6 CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE; 1436 U St., NW, Suite 301, Washington, DC 20009
e-mail: cffc@catholics for choice.org
website: www.catholicsforchoice.org
"The first global campaign to end the Catholic bishops' ban on condoms was launched by Catholics for a Free Choice on the eve of World AIDS Day 2001. Billboards and advertisements in newspapers and on subway trains carrying the message 'Banning Condoms Kills' appeared in Washington, DC, and are set to appear in 2002 in Brussels, Belgium; Cape Town, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Harare, Zimbabwe; La Paz, Bolivia; Santiago, Chile; Mexico City, Mexico and Manila, the Philippines. Newspaper ads will reinforce the message: Catholic People Care - Do Our Bishops? Banning Condoms Kills. The ads can be viewed at www.condoms4life.org.
The worldwide public education effort invites the public to join the global campaign to end the ban by signing up at www.condoms4life.org and asks them to contact local policymakers expressing their support for the availability of condoms and their concern that bishops should not undermine responsible public health policy on HIV/AIDS.
In a statement, Frances Kissling, president of CFFC, said, 'The Vatican and the world's bishops bear significant responsibility for the death of thousands of people who have died from AIDS. For individuals who follow the Vatican's policy and Catholic health care providers who are forced to deny condoms, the bishops' ban is a disaster. Real people are dying from AIDS. Real bishops are silent. We can no longer stand by and allow the ban to go unchallenged.'"
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