But there is neither public awareness nor any public debate on these issues. The fact that only the male condom is widely available in itself gives a promiscuous man power to sentence a woman to death if he will not use a condom. I stand here . . . Captain Ian Campbell, International Health Programme Consultant for the Salvation Army, advocated a more integrated community development approach to the care of those suffering with AIDS, in which hospitals, clinics and churches offer community counselling, education and support in partnership with people in the home, neighbourhood and local community. Dr. David Gitari, Archbishop of Kenya, said that most of the illness in his diocese was preventable.
Many people catch water-borne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery and cholera.
They only need to be told to boil water, even the tap water, before they drink it. He said simple education programs had been most effective in tackling the problems. The final speaker, Mr. Hugh Bailey, MP for York and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Frank Dobson, the British Secretary of State for Health, said the government believed the answer to social and health problems lay in people deciding to take responsibility at every level. Our strategy for health, and for hope . . . is one which very much emphasises responsibility. The government accepts responsibility to do those things which only government can do.