NIH Report Shows That Condoms Do Not Provide Safe Sex.(National Institute of Health)(Brief Article)

2001 SEP 6 - (NewsRx Network) -- Condoms, long the mainstay of the safe-sex public health model, do not protect against the spread of nearly all sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a benchmark report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

"Clinical research and experience has long caused us to seriously doubt the effectiveness of condoms to provide 'safe sex'," said Hal Wallis, MD, a spokesman for the Physicians Consortium, a group of more than 2,000 doctors who advocate for sound public health policy. "I am shocked to see the conclusions of the paper so candidly confirm this suspicion to the degree that it does. The clinical evidence is now clear: condoms do not offer safe sex. The entire public health model developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and based on the idea that condoms offer protection, is a lie. The skeleton is now out of the closet."

Wallis, an obstetrician-gynecologist, said that his practice is increasingly devoted to human papillomavirus (HPV)-infected women, many of whom have developed cervical cancer. HPV is the cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer and is also linked to oral, anal, and prostate cancer. But, according to Wallis, "The CDC has placed all of its eggs in the AIDS basket, which truly is a major health threat, but has done so at the expense of all other STDs."

Nearly 5,000 women die from cervical cancer every year. The disease has claimed the lives of more women in the U.S. than has AIDS. The study did not find proof that condoms protect against the three most prevalent STDs - chlamydia, genital herpes, and HPV.

"These three STDs infect nine million people per year," said Dr. John Diggs, another ...