THE fight against the worldwide AIDS epidemic has unfortunately become a political football as the wrangling over the United Nations declaration proved.
As has happened so often before, the international community has focused on the symptoms rather than the causes of a problem.
As the Vatican delegation at the UN pointed out, AIDS has mostly spread through irresponsible or high risk behaviour which goes against moral norms.
Dealing with the problem cannot be addressed unless one goes back to the reasons for the spread of AIDS.
It is hard to deny that sexual licence increases the danger of contracting HIV.
That’s why it is important that any strategy for fighting AIDS needs to include promoting the values of matrimonial fidelity, chastity and abstinence.
