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New Vision - December 6, 2004
The president wants abstinence encouraged at this tender age and condoms only used as the last resort. Condoms are known not to offer 100% protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted disease, which makes abstinence still the most effective preventive method. However, this does not mean the condom is useless. Some protection is better than none. Uganda's success story in bringing down the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate down from 13% to 4.1% over the past decade has been because of the three-pronged method of Abstinence, Be faithful and Condom use - the famous ABC approach. While the ABC approach should be maintained, free condom distribution in schools, wherever it is taking place, should be discouraged and abstinence preached.
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