In Uganda, are more people engaging high-risk sexual behaviors because they can get anti-HIV drugs?
The availability of drugs is quite a recent thing in the last two years. In America and Europe when the drugs became available, there was a move back towards riskier sex. That could be happening in Uganda. But even more than that, the focus on condoms as the first line of defense sells a false sense of security. People feel they can do what they want, use a condom, and it will be okay. That was not the message of the government in the early years. What about this idea that condoms have to be provided everywhere alcohol and sex are sold? Do you agree or disagree with that? That means bars and brothels. I’d go along with that. I think at bars and brothels you do need condoms. That’s where there’s a legitimate role for condoms. But what Western experts have gone into the developing world promoting condoms as the only proven method of preventing AIDS. So we take that approach with primary school children and rural village people, married people. It hasn’t worked. People in the general popu
