Just looking at the link there (from The Guardian's iPhone app) on the off chance it doesn't work, should anyone wish to read it, it's an article by Barbara Ellen from last week so should be easy to find. The paragraph of most interest to Joe's sighs would be;

"Why is "permission" being granted to safeguard against one virus, Zika, but not against HIV and Aids? While Zika is horrific, how many lives has Aids claimed and ruined, including babies who are born HIV-positive? A disgrace, then, that, in all these decades, the issue has been persistently dodged by the Vatican. In 2009, Francis's predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, said that the Aids tragedy could not be solved by the distribution of condoms "which even aggravates the problems". The following year, Benedict conceded that "male prostitutes" could use condoms."

Surely Joe isn't falling into the trap of assuming HIV is a gay problem? He does after all keep telling me our resident homophobe isn't homophobic...,,