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Tanzania: Aids is Too a Grave Matter
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
EDITORIAL
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 27 March 2008
A billboard put up in Dar es Salaam recently has stirred up a lot of controversy. It's the work of an NGO, Human Life International, and depicts a skeleton, seeming to imply that condoms are not effective protection against contracting HIV.
As expected, there have been sharp reactions from several quarters, including the Tanzania Commission for Aids (TacAids). This threatens to revive the needless past fights between the two groups on how to tackle the Aids pandemic.
While the church advocates abstinence and being faithful to one partner, TacAids and others have pointed out that not all can confirm to that, hence the need for other tested methods like the condom if people must indulge in unsafe sex.
What we must emphasise is that this scourge poses too grave a danger for our country to get needlessly split on how to deal with it.
The message that must go out there loud and clear is that there is no cure yet for Aids and that everything possible must be done to ward off this grim threat to society.
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Tanzania, like many other African countries, has suffered a devastating blow from the scourge, with up to 2 million people said to be living with the virus, while 160,000 die every year.
There are about a million Aids orphans. This is a huge burden and Tanzania needs the support of all, including donors.
This is why all must avoid sideshows that are likely to send the wrong signals out and hamper efforts to tackle this pandemic with the seriousness it deserves.
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