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From:	Adeyemo Gabriel [ profile ]
Subject:	Uganda: Muslim women back condoms for HIV prevention.....
Sent:	Jan 15th, 2011 - 02:24:36

	Date: 12 January 2011 Source: IRIN PlusNews http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=91606 My fellow Advocate, This is an interesting article for you to read a story of a muslim woman who advices her husband not to stop having extra-marital sex but should be careful and uses a condom. This was her comment..."I buy them [condoms] for him and place them where he can easily see them so that in case he wants to go out with other women, he can use them"...... Some Muslim women in western Uganda are demanding that a new HIV prevention programme for Muslims include condom promotion, going against calls by local religious leaders for the programme to be limited to messages on faithfulness and abstinence. "The holy Koran allows Muslim men to marry four wives, but men still go out of wedlock and have extra-marital relationships," Jazira Mugisa told IRIN/PlusNews. Mugisa said the money from the new project should be used to sensitize men on the use of condoms. The four-year programme, localized to the western Ugandan district of Kasese and funded by the US Agency for International Development, is to be led by the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council. Local Muslim leaders have called for the funds -- an estimated US$43,000 -- to be used to promote fidelity within marriage and abstinence among unmarried people. Uganda's national HIV prevention programme -- which targets all sections of society -- emphasizes abstinence, faithfulness and the correct and consistent use of condoms. Please click on the link above to read full article. Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Adeyemo Gabriel Moderator: Students' for Microbicides (S4M), Nigeria

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