Alexi II has expressed concern over western anti-AIDS programs applied in Russia that are incompatible with Russian moral norms

Monday, August 26, 2019

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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexi II has expressed concern over western anti-AIDS programs applied in Russia that are incompatible with Russian moral norms. “Under the guise of promoting healthy lifestyle and AIDS protection among young people, they are spreading the programs that can be interpreted in no other way than sexual and moral depravation of children,” Alexi II said in his message to the Russian president on the eve of a meeting of State Council’s Presidium devoted to the fight against HIV/AIDS. “I mean the global anti-AIDS project GLOBUS and other international programs, which, under the cover of struggle against the plague of the 21st century and with the financial support of western pharmaceutical companies and contraceptives’ producers promote among youths anti-HIV mechanical remedies,” the Patriarch said. “Such programs contribute to promoting sexual permissiveness and irresponsibility and abolishment of any moral rules and principles among young people,” Alexi II said. While recognizing the struggle against the HIV/AIDS in Russia as a task of state importance, the top hierarch underlines that it should not imply “the necessity to introduce stereotypes and mechanisms that are alien to our culture, traditions and morals.” The press service of the Moscow Patriarchate recalled that on April 19, the Moscow City Duma legislators issued an address to the president urging him to prevent the implementation of foreign anti-AIDS programs in Russia. They said that these programs are based on lobbying the interests of contraceptives’ producers and promoting immoral and irresponsible models of attitude under the cover of “safe sex.”

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