title: [Aids, physicians, Catholic Church].
abstract: The latest AIDS' congress (Barcelona) reminded the world this dramatic situation. The shown data are remarkable: 5 million people of new infected in 2001, 68 million people could die in the next 20 years because of AIDS and the biggest part of them is living in the South of the world. There are two different kind of AIDS: the AIDS of rich people (2% of infected ones), who can reach the modern therapies that changed the course of the disease now curable out of hospital, and the AIDS of poor ones, without therapies and future. The political-economic effort of Western governments, of global fund anti-AIDS and of non governmental organizations now is not able to answer to this emergency in the right way. The lacking sensibility of Western doctors and the inflexible position of Catholic Church about contraception make the situation more complicated. It's hopeful the overcoming of this position using a Catholic Church's precious concept: the distinction between "simpliciter" and "secundum quid" to agree the use of condoms in case of absolute need.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Medicina Interna II, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
authors.forename: Marica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pipino
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Boldrini
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cristani
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy / Q000635:transmission; D000328:Adult; D002410:Catholicism; D002648:Child; D017280:Condoms; D003267:Contraception; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D010820:Physicians; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014944:World Health Organization