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Malawi churches review role of condoms in AIDS fight

The Malawi Council of Churches is reviewing its opposition to the use of condoms in the country's anti-AIDS fight, and has said it may support the use of condoms by married couples where one or both partners are HIV positive, reports Ecumenical News International. "Where one partner or both are infected, and we want to avoid transmission of the virus to the other, condom use might be considered but only with proper counselling," said Lutheran Bishop Joseph Bvumbwe, chairperson of the council's board. Still, he added, "The church has not changed its stand on the use of condoms, and we will not support wholesale use of condoms." In the past, a number of church denominations in Malawi have condemned the use of condoms for encouraging, as they believe, promiscuity and pre-marital sex among young people. Instead of condoms, the churches have called for sexual abstinence before marriage.

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