International (Africa)
Swazi Chief Bans Condoms
Published in AIDS Weekly, June 9th, 1997
Citing Biblical law, a traditional chief in a Swaziland mountain kingdom has banned the use of condoms.
Health authorities were shocked by his action, which contradicted their efforts to encourage condom use to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Chief Jameson Ndznatabantfu Maseko, of the Ekhupeleni area in northern Swaziland, said using condoms misuses and wastes a man's reproductive fluid, the independent Times of Swaziland reported.
But he was not opposed to women using contraceptive pills.
Addressing hundreds of his subjects at his...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-06-09)
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