title: Condom use banned.
abstract: A traditional chief in Swaziland has banned the use of condoms by men in his chiefdom, because they were "misusing and wasting a man's reproductive fluid".  The ban, which made front-page news in the Times Newspaper of Swaziland, has shocked nongovernmental organization and family planning officials in the tiny southern African kingdom, the Southern African Press Association reported. Addressing hundreds of his subjects at his Kraal during a visit by health ministry officials, Chief Jameson Ndznatabautfu Maseko said using condoms was against God's laws as stated in the Old Testament.  But the chief was willing to continue to allow women to use contraceptive pills, the report said.  The chief did not say how he hoped to monitor his male subjects' sex lives but gave instructions that anyone using or being forced to use condoms be reported to him immediately.  In a reaction to the chief's comments, health ministry principal secretary, Myekani Vilakati said that if the reports were correct, "the family planning program would have to start all over again, this time starting with educating the country's traditional leaders".
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000353:Africa, Southern; D017280:Condoms; D003267:Contraception; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003906:Developing Countries; D013541:Eswatini; D005193:Family Planning Services; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Barrier Methods; Condom; Contraception; Contraceptive Methods; Contraceptive Usage; Developing Countries; English Speaking Africa; Family Planning; Policy; Southern Africa; Summary Report; Swaziland