EU says condoms are best way to fight AIDS

CONDOMS are the only effective protection against HIV/AIDS, though petroleum-based lubricants are not as reliable, according to a study carried out for the EU.

More than 40 million people worldwide have the disease and most of them live in the world’s poorest countries where the majority never receive any treatment.

Each year another five million people are infected with the virus for which there is no cure and over three million die, making HIV/AIDS the worst pandemic the world has ever faced.