- Can you believe this rubbish out of the mouth of a black
Roman Catholic Bishop?
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- Among Blacks in general - for as long as I know - they
have always been extremely suspicious about white attempts to get them
to use contraceptives - even long before AIDS was an issue. The blacks
always said that we whites want to wipe them out by stopping them from
breeding.
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- The truth is that we whites always used to tell blacks:
"If you want to raise your standard of living and get out of poverty
THEN STOP HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN!"
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- Add to that the fact that we Whites PRACTISE WHAT WE
PREACH! We have very few children. You would think the Blacks would see
the sense and honesty in what we're saying since we too are doing it. But
no luck! Then you ge t nonsense like this.
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- I saw a documentary once about a Priest in Zambia who
preached to blacks that using condoms went against Christianity. So these
priests actually help to spread AIDS and to make it worse. --Jan
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- Mozambique's Roman Catholic archbishop has accused European
condom manufacturers of deliberately infecting their products with HIV
"in order to finish quickly the African people".
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- The archbishop of Maputo, Francisco Chimoio, told the
BBC that he had specific information about a plot to kill off Africans.
"I know that there are two countries in Europe ... making condoms
with the virus, on purpose," he alleged. But he refused to name the
countries.
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- He added: "They want to finish with the African
people. This is the programme. They want to colonise until up to now. If
we are not careful we will finish in one century's time."
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- His views have prompted outrage from activists trying
to combat HIV/Aids and help sufferers. They described t he statements as
ridiculous. Medical specialists said it was! impossi ble for the Aids virus
to live inside condoms for any length of time.
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- Marcella Mahanjane, a prominent Mozambican activist,
told the BBC that there was no evidence to back the archbishop's claims.
"We've been using condoms for years now, and we still find them safe,"
she said.
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- Nonetheless the archbishop's comments are likely to undermine
the Mozambique government's campaign to educate people about the disease
in a country where about one in six of the 19-million citizens are HIV-positive
and about 500 people are infected each day.
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- Health specialists say that views contrary to scientific
orthodoxy on HIV/Aids are frequently seized upon by people looking for
a reason not to use condoms or by those reluctant to take the antiretroviral
drugs.
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- The archbishop is widely respected in Mozambique, in
part because of the leading role he played in brokering a peace deal to
end a 16-year civil war in 1992.
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- The Catholic church has resisted pressure to amend its
opposition to the use of condoms despite the HIV/Aids pandemic. Chimoio
told the BBC that abstinence was the best way to fight HIV/Aids.
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- "If we want to change the situation to face HIV/Aids
it's necessary to have a new mentality. If we don't change [that] mentality
we'll be finished quickly," he said. "It means marriage, people
being faithful to their wives ... [and] young people must be abstaining
from sexual relations."
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- The archbishop's comments echo the scepticism over HIV/Aids
found among leaders in other parts of Africa, notably neighbouring South
Africa where President Thabo Mbeki has questioned the link between HIV
and Aids and suggested that antiretroviral drugs are so poisonous they
are more dangerous than the disease.
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- Aids education has been undermined in other parts of
the continent by leaders who back cures that show no signs of overcoming
HIV. The Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh, claims to be able to cure the
disease by rubbing a green herbal potion into people's bodies. Patients
have b! een refe rred to the president by the country's health ministry.
A United Nations Aids official who criticised Jammeh's claims was expelled
from The Gambia.
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