若者のエイズ防止にコンドーム不要、禁欲一番と

若者のエイズ防止にコンドーム不要、禁欲一番と
2006.05.20
Web posted at: 18:10 JST
- CNN/REUTERS

ナイロビ――アフリカ東部、ケニアのキバキ大統領夫人は１８日夜、女子学校で演説し、エイズウイルス（ＨＩＶ）の感染阻止などには、コンドームは必要なく、「セックスしないことが最善の防止策」との見解を示した。

地元紙が報じた。「学校、大学に通っている人間はコンドームを使うような時間はないはずだ」とも指摘。「セックスは若者のためのものではない」とも言い切った。

エイズ撲滅に当たっている活動家らは、「現実を無視した発言」と反発している。ロイター通信によると、ケニアでは過去１０年、ＨＩＶ感染者、エイズ発病患者が減少、１９９０年代後半には総人口比の約１０％だったが、２０３年には７％に下がった。エイズ対策の活動家らはコンドーム使用が増えたことの成果と説明している。

キバキ夫人は、「過激な行動」でも知られ、昨年には自身について虚偽の報道をされたとして、新聞社の編集室に乗り込んだこともある。


Kenya's First Lady decries use of condoms
19 May 2006 13:47:28 GMT

NAIROBI, May 19 (Reuters) - Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki risked the wrath of anti-AIDS campaigners by advising young people against using condoms, saying they should practice abstinence instead.

"Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms," Lucy Kibaki said in a speech carried on the government's Web site on Friday.

"I am not in favour of condoms."

Kenya has seen a decline in the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the past decade. In the late 1990s, 10 percent of the population was infected but by 2003, that number had dropped to 7 percent.

Many AIDS experts attribute such success in part to wider use of condoms.

But some staunch Christians, as well as prominent Africans including Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni, have promoted abstinence over condom use as the best way to fight AIDS.

"Sex is not for the youth," Kibaki was quoted as saying by a local newspaper in its report on the speech given on Thursday night at a girls' school.

Many activists working to combat the disease's deadly impact across Africa, where millions have died from the pandemic, say views like those of Kibaki and Museveni ignore the reality that most people will not stop having sex.

Kibaki, who is a member of the African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS, has courted controversy throughout her husband's tenure since 2002.

In 2005, she stormed into a newsroom and accused reporters of telling lies about her, while last month she tore into one of her husband's political foes for his "persistent and unwarranted" attacks on the president.