Vatican says condoms don't prevent Aids

[jeffreedy789]

from the article:

‘The Vatican is opposed to contraception and has advocated that people change their behaviour instead.’

this, however, is apparently unacceptable to the bbc.

 

[j_arden]

Here’s an interesting statistical excercise:

Assume condoms are 90% effective–10% failure rate–in preventing HIV/STD transmission (this is probably a little generous). After 10 “uses” there is a 65% chance that one use was a failure. After 20, there’s an 88% chance. After 30, 96%.

People who advocate condom use use single-incident statistics, e.g. the 90% figure. However, the people that rely on condoms to protect them from HIV/STDs more than likely should look at multiple-incident statistics. Say you rely on condoms for protection in 20 sexual encounters. You’re “sucess rate” is a whopping 12%. 12% is much more sobering than 90%. (Though I don’t know why anyone thinks 90% is adequate.)

-JP

 

[mkarzon]

The size of an HIV cell is smaller than the “porus holes” in a latex condom. Thus it can get through.

 

[bemmel]

Wow. Just think of all the people using condoms out there thinking that they can’t get HIV, and they are really just hurting their soul. We should continue to educate others and most importantly, pray.

 

[mrS4ntA]

mkarzon:

The size of an HIV cell is smaller than the “porus holes” in a latex condom. Thus it can get through.

True… unless condom is glass-rigid – which it isn’t.

Anything elastic have pores. That’s a fact of structuring. The pores prevent many molecules passing though, true.

But what is HIV? a virus… which is thousands times smaller than bacteriae and molecules.

It’s an indisputable fact that HIV virus is hundreds times smaller than the pores of condoms.