From Mae Swanbeck
Timothy Stamps’s comments about HIV and Zimbabwe’s trend towards zero
population growth are curious at best
(20 October, p 50).
Catholicism has never stopped the incursion of AIDS.
AIDS is chiefly a disease of heterosexuals, and for much of the 10-year
period Stamps cites, the African countries concerned did not admit they had a
problem with AIDS. Stamps’s “WHO, Inc” is a convenient scapegoat. The
overwhelming source of problems is the decades-long “Who? Not me” stance.
Since the horse has already bolted, medicines are sadly the only choice for
an infected and ill-served nation.
San Francisco
