Gatekeepers and programme deliverers may…

• Believe that abstinence is ideal:

  • They should abstain; in fact that is what they should be told that it is the best.

• Acknowledge abstinence is unrealistic:

  • …we can't pretend that these people are going to wait until they are married …

• Believe that being faithful is no guarantee:

  • You don't know because they have never gone to the hospital to be seen who is having AIDS and who doesn't have so we don't know.