It would be good if Minister of Labor and Health Maurizio Sacconi followed the example of the French conservative government which will distribute next Saturday, during the music festival, one million condoms to the young people who will participate.
Along with condoms Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot has also decided to distribute, simultaneously in 38 cities, informational brochures illustrating the risks and ways of transmitting the HIV virus.
In this sense we would like to know when the second phase of the prevention campaign conceived by the previous minister Livia Turco will start and which was supposed to take place precisely during this period. It was a matter of moving from generalist messages to those aimed at specific targets. In the first part, for the first time in Italy's history of failing to fight AIDS, condoms were finally clearly discussed, with a dedicated commercial headlined by Ambra Angiolini.
Unfortunately in Italy after decades of culpable omissions by those responsible for health care, the word condom is still a taboo word and sex is a word that is still pronounced with a certain embarrassment, Therefore, there's a strong risk that last year's brief interlude will be erased. We ask Sacconi to speak publicly and tell us how he intends to proceed.
We invite the Minister to take advantage of the national demonstration of Bologna Pride on June 28th to launch a widespread distribution of condoms throughout Italy in places where heterosexual and homosexual youth congregate; one million condoms and information leaflets to effectively combat the worrying tendency to forget a pathology, which instead is once again on the alarming rise among all generations, among all sexual orientations.
Aurelio Mancuso
national president of Arcigay
