Fools for using Condoms

THE EDITOR: In response to the letters replying to my letter which stated that condoms are not the way to fight Aids, I reiterate that condoms have a high failure rate in preventing pregnancies.

I will use my conservative statistics of 15 — 17 percent (the Allan Guttmaker Institute failure rate is 33 percent), that is out of 100 times the condom is used to prevent pregnancies it fails 33 times or with my figures 17 times. The user may be at fault or the pores in the condom may allow passage of the sperm, whatever the reason it fails.

Since the Aids Virus is 500 times smaller than the sperm eg sperm....aids virus — it stands to reason that the failure rate will be much greater. Therefore I stand by my statement that condoms do not prevent the spread of Aids, they may lengthen the time in which you may contract it but if used for that purpose, they will encourage the spread of Aids.

Uganda, Africa is the only country I know about (there may be others) that has been successful in reducing Aids by its government programmes of chastity. No other nation that has pushed condoms has reduced Aids, why therefore are we being fooled and continue to be fools by allowing the condom industry to slowly kill us?

JUDE GONSALVES
Woodbrook