Kremlin: "Condoms Spread HIV" (Just Like Syphilis Comes From Toilet Seats)

Condoms are being blamed for the spread of HIV in Russia, according to a Kremlin-backed group, and the only way to protect yourself is to be in a ‘heterosexual family’.
The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) made the bizarre claims at the Moscow City Duma Commission on Public Health.
‘The contraceptive industry is interested in selling their products and encouraging under-aged people to engage in sex,’ said study co-author Igor Beloborodov.
But the best way to prevent HIV spreading is to be ‘in a heterosexual family where both partners are loyal to each other’.
The Kremlin so-called experts said the Western model of fighting HIV and AIDS, which targets ‘drug addicts and LGBT people’ would not work in Russia due to the ‘cultural, historical and psychological characteristics of the population’.
So instead of focusing safe sex practices for all people, they claim it is best that all gay people just get married to someone of the opposite gender and have sex with them.
This isn’t the view of all Russians on sexual health.
Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the Federal Center for Fighting AIDS, has repeatedly stressed the need to focus on condoms otherwise the spread of HIV will only increase.
He has said 930,000 Russians now have HIV, up from 500,000 in 2010. In 2015 alone, around 100,000 new cases of HIV in Russia were reported.
‘The last five years of the conservative approach have led to the doubling of the number of HIV-infected people,’ Pokrovsky said.