[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

you know he is correct in one regard,

that condom's and money alone will NOT stop the spread of HIV/AIDS anywhere in the world.

He was also right to say that abstinence is in fact the best solution to prevent the transmission of STDs, as no sex= no transmission, and with HIV this is a serious matter which people should genuinely consider, it is not hard to remain abstinent if it is for your life..

BUT,
while the pope's report contained a bit of truth, we ALL KNOW it is cursed with IDEALISM. while people SHOULD practice abstinence, we all know by human nature that they WONT, and so CONDOMS NEED to be used in tandem with abstinence programs.

But in the Pope's defense, he is the legal head of the Catholic Church, and organization which itself prohibits the use of condoms as sin to begin with, and so he could not publically promote condoms, so this is why I believe his best solution would have been just to keep quiet in this matter..

as we say in Rastafari, "If a fish woulda kep him big yap shut, him never woulda got caught.."