Zambia: Anger at Move to Declare Schools Condom-Free Zones

One step forward, three steps backwards: that's how various AIDS activists, parents and teachers in Zambia are describing government's decision to ban the distribution of condoms in schools on the grounds that it promotes promiscuity. Walter Tapfumaneyi, HIV/AIDS Regional Programme Coordinator for PANOS - a non-governmental organisation - says the condoms simply afforded protection to those children who did choose to have sex.