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A day after courting controversy over a statement on use of condoms for prevention of HIV/AIDS in an interview to an international media group, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan denied discounting the role of condoms in prevention of the auto-immune disease.
“Through misleading headlines, an impression is sought to be created that I have misgivings about the efficacy of condoms or that I have a moral problem with condoms,” he said.
The Health Minister, who is credited for the very successful pulse polio programme, said that the Abstinence-Be Faithful-Condom (ABC) line of UN AIDS has yielded great success in Uganda and now forms part of the anti-AIDS campaigns of several countries.
“My statement on informing people on the supremacy of fidelity as an AIDS prevention measure is not only a piece of cultural advice but also a scientific one. So, as Minister of Health I find it justified to include this simple message in the communication strategy of the government’s anti-AIDS programmes,” he said.
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