HIV and AIDS Views
The Philippines is a heavily Catholic country and its views have historically be linked with Catholic teaching. Condom usage has historically been a controversial topic. Sin was the Manila archbishop at the time of the Philippine government's 1996 first implementation of a program to prevent the spread of HIV within the country and he called the program "intrinsically evil." Church leaders in his area protested against both the government and the HIV prevention program by publicly burning boxes of condoms.
Sin denounced the secretary of the Department of Health, Juan Flavier, as an "agent of Satan" for his condom promotion program.
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