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248Rodica Ţuguifrom the modern world allows a person to try all kinds of experiences. A way oflife suggested mostly by the media and the cultural productions which don’t havea moral exogenisis won`t lead to a “defeat” of the sickness. For the moraleducation of young people, for their orientation on “the road full of traps impliedby the modern world” maybe the words of Saint Paul, the Apostle, “all are allowedto you but not all are useful to you” are among the most revealing, said a priestfrom Dolj. This statement underlines the need to present to young people, in anassociated way, their behaviors and, along side, their mostly bad consequences 16 .So, about the method of prevention to get and spread the disease, thegreatest majority of the priests have referred to the moral means which aim for„a certain purity of the soul and body, abstinence until marriage and the fidelityof the couple”. Also, it would be necessary, as the partricipants at the publicdebates said, to put the accent on the educational climate, thru preparing for amoral life, with certain spiritual virtues of the pupils while in school. The mediashould encourage the moral models, and contribute to the moral „building” ofthe individual, not immoral behaviors. Sometimes the Western life models takenby those who went to work abroad were considered a possible factor ofspreading the HIV in Romania.About the HIV/AIDS phenomena, it seems that the priests are, ingeneral, relatively informed over the way of transmission and the way ofprevention considering often that the method in which the disease has penetratedin Romania is mostly the sexual one, but it`s due also to medical negligence. Theways by which they have obtained this knowledge are diverse too, fromspecialized websites 17 to brochures sent thru the medical cabinets, 18 andgenerally through mass/media. The participants at the focus groups haveunderlined often the negativity of promoting thru different ways, mostly thru themedia, of certain models and lifestyles which encourage relationships betweenthe sexes that are unacceptable for Christian morality, “living together” withoutmarrige but even more, children outside of marriage. 1916 “When you start your sexual life, there are risks to you. You can affect your bodybecause the friend standing next to you can be suffering from a sickness or, at the very least, youcan get pregnant and then there would be big problems: if you keep the baby you are a non gratisperson in the family and in the school, and if you don’t keep the baby you are a murderer. So,either way, it is a very delicate situation.” (priest Dolj).17 “I honestly tell you that I heard about HIV as any other parent from here, and as anyother human being from the tv, from the press. But I said: let’s see even more than this, I would’tlike to come here and to be outside the subject. And I’ve done an internet search on this topic.Surely it’s largely presented with statistics and everything. Many things can be found out.Anybody could have access to this type of information.” (priest Alba-Iulia).18 “I have found out many things about HIV from the private medical facilities, becausethese facilities are based on existing legislation and they need to have technical information placedin the hallway; they also need to have medical magazines and brochures about medicines. Also, Ifound out enough information from the materials which have circulated thru the parochy comingfrom the Public Health Department.” (priest Iaşi)19 “This problem (of HIV infection) needs to be associated with certain social modelswhich we receive thru the media. For example, Mike Tyson comes to Romania a rapist, an aggressor