Philippine AIDS Rate Has Doubled Coinciding with Increase of Condom Use

Interesting article on Condom and AIDS.

Thailand and the Philippines started seeing AIDS cases in the same year: 1984. That year, Thailand launched its “100% Condom Use Program” that saw condom vending machines in legal brothels, supermarkets, bars and most public places. The Philippines, however, resisted the imposition of condoms the following year and turned to promotion of abstinence.
 
In 1999 the UNAIDS reported 755,000 total confirmed cases of HIV infection in Thailand with 65,000 dead of the disease. That same year, in the Philippines, the total number of HIV cases was only 1,005. The disease had killed only 225 people. Full article here.