AIDS: History of a Plague
March 17, 2009: Pope Warns Against Condom Use
During his first official papal trip to AIDS-ravaged Africa, Pope Benedict XVI tells Catholics not to use condoms, saying they actually make the AIDS crisis worse. More than two-thirds of the world's 40 million people who are infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Mar 25, 2009