Dr Edward Green on the Pope, condoms and Harvard
On tomorrow's Sunday Sequence, we've an exclusive interview with Dr Edward Green, the Harvard researcher who made news last week when he came to the defence of Pope Benedict. The pope has outraged the medical world by claiming that condoms exacerbate the problem of Aids in Africa. This provoked rebukes from European governments and HIV campaigners around the world. But then a lone voice was heard to suggest that the Pope was in fact right. Dr Green tells me why he decided to speak out on this occasion, responds to scientific criticism of his own controversial analysis, and talks for the first time about the impact of his "politically incorrect" views on his career.
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While not agreeing with the Roman stance on contraception, I doubt the efficacy of providing condoms in Africa.
Assuming ready availability of the articles, they would be used sparsely, especially by the 50% who are really poor, and who are probably the main fount of the AIDS problem.
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It's nice to see how the quite obvious truth of human sexuality which the pope has reminded us gives rise to hysteria in the media, simply on the strength of propaganda in the service of ideological myth. And in a citizenry that likes to think of itself as 'informed' it's ironic that a little nation like Uganda unmasks the deceptions. Good for you Dr Green for sharing 25 years of Aids research at Harvard. It actually takes courage to speak the truth in this matter.
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