Condoms safe, fidelity safest: Health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan clarifies

June 25, 2014 17:29

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, who was quoted as saying in an interview that the stress on condom use in AIDS awareness campaigns sent a wrong message of promoting illegal sex, today said his comments had been distorted.

"Condoms promise safe sex, but the safest sex is through faithfulness to one's partner. Prevention is always better than cure," he said in a long statement in his defence that raised more eyebrows. Read

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