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This couple takes advantage of the modern miracle of electricity (they own a coffee shop) but not the modern miracle of insulin?
As sad as this story is, it is nothing compared to what the Bush Administration is doing.
This couple killed one person with their "faith-based" approach to diabetes but Bush is killing millions with his "faith-based" approach to sexually transmitted diseases. An approach that requires that 1/3 of anti-AIDS funds be spent on this "faith-based" nonsense.
There is no cure for any virus disease. There are now several STD's that can't be cured. Prevention is the ONLY method. Condoms are not safe. 1 in 15 failure per Consumer Reports. Some diseases just go right through the wall of the condom. Yet people like you say abstinence is not the answer but condoms are.
Absinence is good, but if people is going to have sex anyway, they should at least have a condom on hand.
A condom on their hand wouldn't do any good!
LOL, you're right! I believe I thought that expresion in spanish.
Did you have an American style sex-ed class?
Did they also teach you that you will go blind doing "that" without a condom on your hand? he he.
Well when I was in high school teacher often made us do some "Research" about it and we were the ones in charge of teach what we have "Learned" to our classmates. I even used a banana as an "Example" LOL.
which diseases go right through a condom????
Endoscopy's comment is misleading. Viruses can make their way through micropores in a 'lambskin' condom (made actually from lamb intestine). Polyurethane or latex are better choices.
There is a kernel of truth in Endo's comments. There can be a condom failure rate as high as 10% among 'novice' users. Couples that are aware of proper use, storage, and disposal of condoms have a far lower failure rate.
Statistically, abstinence-only programs show a HIGHER rate of unwanted pregnancy than more comprehensive sex education programs.
Sex education for Endoscopy:
--Some viral disease can be prevented via vaccination. The most lethal strains of Human Papilloma Virus are among these.
--The most common sexually transmitted diseases (e.g. chlamydia) are not viral and can be cured with antibiotics if recognized. If ignored they can be transmitted with unfortunate results.
--There is STRONG evidence that proper condom usage reduces the risk of transmission of STDs (New Enland Journal of Medicine 354:2645-2654).
--While abstinence is the best way of reducing the spread of STDs, the teaching of abstinence only has not been successful.
My gosh.....
Are you that obsessive over your hate of Bush that you have to say something about him every time you post? This topic has nothing to do with him or politics yet you must talk about him!
Its pathetic and sickening how some people can't forget about politics and stop pushing their agenda.
I am sorry that you do not see the connection.
The topic is faith-based approaches to medicine as opposed to evidence-based approaches.
Both the family in this article and the President of the United States have caused harm by blindly holding on to faith-based approaches that have been conclusively shown to be ineffective.
Indeed! PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) requires that 1/3 of the budget go toward abstinence-only programs.
From http://www.healthgap.org/camp/pepfar.html:
"Some 32 million quality-approved condoms remain impounded in government warehouses while the U.S. government ramps up financing for abstinence-only approaches to HIV prevention. According to Ugandan AIDS activists, the government's actions will undermine community efforts to reduce HIV prevalence and HIV transmission. These trends away from scientifically sound, evidence-based prevention strategies are occurring in Uganda and in other countries hard-hit by the AIDS epidemic, such as Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia."