Please state your religion and and why you so state..
Thank you for all sincere answers.
Peace and progress into all Truth !
2007-12-01 02:29:16 · 24 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
On the AIDS epidemic, the African country Uganda emphasized abstinence and fidelity in marriage, not condoms and promiscuity, and thus reduced its AIDS infection rate from 30% of the population to 6% in a matter of a few years. In 2004, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok that the emphasis on condoms was killing uncountable millions of Africans by encouraging them to sexual promiscuity and a false sense of security.
Museveni said that to fight AIDS, societies must strive for “optimal relationships based on love and trust instead of institutionalized mistrust which is what the condom is all about.”
The Ugandan abstinence program, however, was largely dismantled by international AIDS organizations infuriated that their condoms-and-promiscuity approach had been so dramatically repudiated in practice."
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06081505.html
2007-12-07 00:12:03 · update #1
With better morals, people might not need medical treatment
2007-12-01 02:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by preacher 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Both are important in fighting AIDS.
To ignore the fact that sexual behavior contributes to rising AIDS cases can be deadly. Therefore, spiritual and moral education is crucial in teaching the important of the abstinence method. We want people to have the best preventative out there - and the best one is abstinence and monogamy after marriage.
However, the millions of people now affected need medical treatment, therefore we cannot ignore that part of the equation either. Compassionate medical care for those suffering is completely in line with the Christian philosophy of bearing one another's burdens and showing love to our neighbor.
Many here have posted their best guesses about what works, but no have provided proof or evidence.
Take Uganda as a good case study. Only this sub-saharan country has successfully combated AIDS. Its HIV prevalence rate has plummeted in recent years. Over 18% of the adult population tested positive for the AIDS virus in 1992. By the end of 2005, only 6.7% did. This is largely due to the program "Education for Life" which promotes abstinence and fidelity in marriage.
Pax Vobiscum+
2007-12-01 02:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by Veritas 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The best cure for AIDS is a combination of approaches. Spiritual-moral education that urges people to trust God in life and that urges abstinence in sexual matters outside of marriage. Plus, obviously, any medical remedies that can cure this horrible disease. I don't mean to suggest that all people who get AIDS get it from sexual sources. This deadly disease can be transmitted many ways. And no matter how a person gets sick, when someone becomes ill they need a cure, not an accusation. This is a terrible illness that affects so many people. Another part of the cure is prayer from those of us who know God and His mercy.
Without God's help the hope for curing AIDS is small.We need God's help in every area of life, especially in such severe problems. I am a Christian. I have no religion; I have a relationship with Jesus Christ. This relationship guides every part of my life - it is my life.
2007-12-01 02:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by LeslieAnn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't have one religion persay, I know what I believe is in my heart and soul and I believe in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Regarding, AIDS, I have seen the ravages of this horrible disease, as I have worked in the medical field previously. All I can say is that currently there is no cure for this horrible disease but there are treatments to help to ease some of the suffering. Medicine can help to prolong the inevitable, but I don't know that I would take this route personally. I can't say what I would do if I were diagnosed with such. I only know that I have worked with many AIDS patients and each one is different. I know that faith gets one through many, many situations but I do not think that it will cure this terrible disease.
2007-12-06 14:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by Cindy Roo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If people kept to Biblical morality, would there even be STDs? Certainly not an AIDS epidemic? It is the crisis it is because of lack of moral integrity in the world.
Sure there might be some disease on a few people. These could be treated by medicines. The numbers are what kills so many.
2007-12-01 02:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by grnlow 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is no cure for AIDS as at now.
Education can help reduce the spread of AIDS.
People can find ways to get around the infection (e.g condoms etc). But there's no way anyone can get around the Biblical command to flee from fornication and avoid adultery.
If everyone applied Bible principles in their lives (avoiding fornication, adultery, blood transfusions and practicing monogamy), AIDS would not be a problem.
2007-12-01 02:40:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The best cure for AIDS is medical treatment and spiritual-moral education.
That is a sentence, not a question. God provided Doctors to heal us of the things they can through the knowledge God has given them.
I am a Christian.
2007-12-01 02:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by freebird 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual and moral education is not the best cure for AIDS. In fact, it does not cure it at all. Spiritual and moral education is a good prevention system for those who has not contracted aid yet. What can moral or spiritual education do for those who contracted aid at birth or through a blood transfusion?
Free from Religion - Just me and God.
2007-12-01 02:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by Aeon Enigma 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The best cure will be found in medicine. Not everyone who gets aids got it from immoral activity. There are sixty million infants with it, you understand.
But a decent grasp of morality (by which I don't mean just religious teachings, but humanism and true love of ALL your fellow humans) will certainly help build a world in which people are not depraved, which is one of the factors that truly spreads the blight.
There is no one answer to this scourge... just as there is no one clear explanation for how it ever arose in the first place.
My religion is hybrid, Christian ethics with Buddhist discipline.
I don't believe in God per se, but I believe in the Godhead of all conscious minds.
2007-12-01 02:40:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Interesting question dear.
You do know that the highest level of STD's and teen pregnancies are in the states that chose to preach abstinence and so called religious values to teenagers instead of sex education and prevention....
2007-12-01 05:22:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi Brother Dave, The best defense is a good offense. I believe the answer lies in good education & decent morals.
2007-12-01 05:22:21 · answer #11 · answered by Ginny S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋