On Africa trip, pope says condoms won't solve AIDS

Mr Nazi Guard thats what you did many years ago. Saying they wont prevent aids is true. But if you tell undereducated people that then there will be more problems. Condoms are part of the solution is what you should have stated.  But what do I know after all

By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer Victor L. Simpson, Associated Press Writer – 46 mins ago

AP – Pope Benedict XVI gestures from the airplane before leaving from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport for …

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.

Benedict had never directly addressed condom use. He has said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.

"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

Some priests and nuns working with those living with HIV/AIDS question the church's opposition to condoms amid the pandemic ravaging Africa.

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