AIDS Agency Takes Issue With the Pope

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  • Author(s): By:NEIL MacFARQUHAR
  • Source:
    New York Times, The (NY), March 20, 2009 Foreign Desk Late Edition - Final, p. 8 1pp
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    • Abstract:
      The United Nations AIDS agency has joined the chorus of politicians and activists critical of Pope Benedict XVI for saying as he embarked on a tour of Africa this week that condoms "increase the problem" of the disease. With more than 7,400 new infections of H.I.V., which causes AIDS, reported daily, "condoms are an essential part of combination prevention," the agency, Unaids, said Thursday in a statement issued from its Geneva headquarters...