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Results of School Condom Studies.  These figures have been borne out in studies of those public schools that have distributed condoms to their students.

     One writer describes the dismal results of one of the first free-condom programs to be instituted at a high school in the United States;

     In the three years since this [Adams City, Colorado] high school became one of the first to hand out condoms, the birth rate has soared to 31% above the national average of 58.1 births per 1,000 students [annually].

     Last year, 76 of Adams City students became teen mothers.  This year, more than 100 births are expected.  That’s left people at this school, recognized throughout Colorado for its cutting-edge educational and social programs, searching for explanations.”[36]

36 Jana Mazanee. "Birth Rate Soars At ColoradoSchool." USA Today, May 19, 1992, page 3A.

An article in the Alan Guttmacher Institute’s Family Planning Perspectives quoted an annual condom failure rate of 18.4 percent among teenaged girls under 18 years old.  This means that more than half of the users will be pregnant within three years.

     The authors also said that “These rates are understated because of the substantial under-reporting of abortion among single women; if abortion reporting was complete, failure rates would be 1.4 times as high as they appear high.”[35]

35 W.R. Grady, M.D. Hayward, and J. Yagi. "Contraceptive Failure in the United States: Estimates From the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth." Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives, September/October 1986, page 204.

The Family Planners `Speak.’ Perhaps family planners were at their most eloquent and revealing when they were not saying anything at all.  In 1987, 800 sexologists gathered for a conference in Heidelberg, Germany.  Dr. Theresa Crenshaw, past President of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), asked the assembly how many of them would have intercourse with the HIV-infected partner of their dreams using a latex condom.  Not a single one raised their hand.  Dr. Crenshaw concluded that “Putting a mere balloon between a healthy body and a deadly disease is not safe.”[61]

61 Don Feder. "CDC Opts to Wage Its Own Trojan War." The Boston Herald, August 19, 1993; Kentucky Citizen's Digest, January/February 1993, pages 4 and 5.

The Philippines and Thailand.  The second real-life example of how condoms fail to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS is presented by the Philippines and Thailand, two Southeastern Asian nations with approximately the same populations.

     In 1984, the first case of HIV was detected in both of these nations.  By 1987, Thailand had 112 cases of AIDS, and the Philippines had 135 cases.  In 1991, the World Health Organization predicted that, by 1999, Thailand would have 70,000 deaths from the disease, and the Philippines would have 85,000 deaths.

     In 1991, both nations took concrete and comprehensive measures against the spread of the HIV virus -- but both directed their efforts in completely different directions.

     The Thai Minister of Health enacted a “100% Condom Use Program.”  All brothels were required to have supplies of condoms, and condom vending machines were installed in all supermarkets, bars, restaurants, and other public gathering places.  This program was widely accepted and implemented by the people of Thailand.

     Two years later, Rene Bullecer, M.D., received authorization from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to establish the organization AIDS-Free Philippines as its official program to combat HIV/AIDS nationwide.  The government signed on to this effort as well.

     By the end of 2003, the disparity in the effectiveness of both types of programs had become glaringly obvious, as shown in this table; [46]

            Parameter                                       Thailand        Philippines

Adults and Children Living with HIV                 570,000          9,000

AIDS Deaths in 2003                                        58,000            500

Population                                                        62,833,000     79,999,000

HIV Infection Rates Per Million                          9,072            113

     This table shows that the Thai HIV infection rate is eighty times higher than the Filipino HIV infection rate.

The current rate of HIV infection in the United States, with all of our sex education, all of our sexual freedom, all of our advanced antiviral drugs, and all of our billions of condoms, is 3,900 per million, thirty times higher than in the Philippines.[47]

     What lesson does this teach us?

     USAID has concluded that the reason that the Philippines has such a low incidence of HIV/AIDS is that youth have a very high rate of abstinence and married people largely remain faithful to their spouses.  The USAID report grudgingly admitted that “The Catholic Church must be credited with influencing sexual behavior.”[48]

48 C. Hermann, E.C. Green, J. Chin, M. Taguiwalo, and C. Cortez. "Evaluation of the Philippines AIDS Surveillance and Education Project." USAID/Philippines, May 8, 2001.

Above are extracts from: Condoms, STD, Teenagers, and International Case Studies Showing Condom Ineffectiveness Against HIV/AIDS
(http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/clo/clo_03condomresource1.html)