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Closing the Condom Gap  - http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/h9edsum.stm  Informational publication published by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Discusses potential benefits worldwide from making condoms more accessible, lowering their cost, promoting them more, and helping to overcome social and personal obstacles to their use.  School Condom Availability  - http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/factsheet/FSSCHCON.HTM  Fact sheet by Advocates for Youth. Supportive of school condom availability as a component of comprehensive sexuality education.  Catholic News: Church in Africa Continues AIDS Fight Without Condoms  - http://www.cathnews.com/news/310/53.php  Information about the church position that condoms should not be promoted for disease prevention because their use leads to sexual promiscuity. Includes links to related news articles.  Condoms and the Church  - http://www.afronets.org/archive/200212/msg00030.php  Forum posting tells about an African bishop's pragmatic endorsement of condom use.  Seattle Catholic - The Wisdom of Bishop Cawcutt  - http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20010831_Wisdom_of_Bishop_Cawcutt.html  Essay of support for the South African bishop who made statements directly opposed to the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, fornication and homosexuality when he recommended proper condom use as a means of fighting the spread of AIDS.  Global Campaign to End the Bishops' Ban on Condoms  - http://www.condoms4life.org/  Organization of Roman Catholics opposed to the Church's policy against the use of condoms. News, essays, and position papers on the topic.  BBC News: Church Rejects Plea on Condoms  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1465326.stm  News report on announcement of the Catholic Church in southern Africa that condoms are a misguided and immoral weapon in the fight against AIDS.  BBC News: Vatican in HIV Condom Row  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3176982.stm  Reports on criticism of the Catholic Church for telling countries with high HIV rates that condoms are permeable to the virus.  Ban the Sex Tax  - http://www.xessentials.co.uk/info/tax  Campaign to encourage condom use by getting VAT (Value Added Tax) dropped from retail sales of condoms in the UK.  BBC Panorama: Vatican - Condoms Don't Stop HIV  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3180236.stm  About the Catholic Church's effort to tell people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them.  BBC Panorama: Condoms - The Science  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3845011.stm  Scientific background and review of claims and counter-claims on condom effectiveness and safety.