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• - Reports on criticism of the Catholic Church for telling countries with high HIV rates that condoms are permeable to the virus.
  
• - About the Catholic Church's effort to tell people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them.
  
• - Information about the church position that condoms should not be promoted for disease prevention because their use leads to sexual promiscuity. Includes links to related news articles.
  
• - Scientific background and review of claims and counter-claims on condom effectiveness and safety.
  
• - Informational publication published by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Discusses potential benefits worldwide from making condoms more accessible, lowering their cost, promoting them more, and helping to
  
• - Forum posting tells about an African bishop's pragmatic endorsement of condom use.
  
• - News report on announcement of the Catholic Church in southern Africa that condoms are a misguided and immoral weapon in the fight against AIDS.
  
• - Campaign to encourage condom use by getting VAT (Value Added Tax) dropped from retail sales of condoms in the UK.
  
• - Essay of support for the South African bishop who made statements directly opposed to the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, fornication and homosexuality when he recommended proper condom use as a means of fighting the spread of AIDS.
  
• - Fact sheet by Advocates for Youth. Supportive of school condom availability as a component of comprehensive sexuality education.
  
• - Organization of Roman Catholics opposed to the Church's policy against the use of condoms. News, essays, and position papers on the topic.