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Kenya: Muslim clerics declare war on condoms

Muslim leaders in Kenya's North Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV.


Muslim leaders have promised to preach against the use and distribution of condoms in north-eastern Kenya. (Image: Neil Thomas/IRIN)
The decision was made after a recent meeting on the theme of "Islam and Health", attended by more than 60 Muslim scholars and teachers in the provincial capital of Garissa.

"A lot of money is being wasted to poison our community ... a huge amount of money is spent on buying condoms, buying immorality," Sheikh Mohamud Ali, of Garissa district, told IRIN/PlusNews.

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[13 May 2008 07:51]


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