These African men who are infecting women with HIV are all Catholics then? Please tell me you have some sort of statistics to back up your claim that African men (or any other men who refuse to wear condoms on the advice of their parish priest or local bishop or because of anything the Pope may have said, anywhere in the world) are all Catholics.
Because, as you know, Islam really frowns on sex outside of marriage, and many of its more conservative leaders have preached against condom use. You are no doubt aware that the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) also oppose condom use. How do you know the men who are refusing to use condoms are not influenced by what either of these two churches, which are both present and active in Africa say?
And again, why do you think men who are promiscuous are paying any attention to any church? Did HIV/AIDS get started in the first place in the US because members of the gay community where it first surfaced were too troubled by what the Pope would think of them to use condoms? This argument that the Pope could make any difference in getting at-risk groups to wear condoms is absolute baloney.
Condoms are very un-African. They are held in suspicion because they are culturally alien, just as the polio vaccine was rejected in Nigeria because it was allegedly part of some white man's plot to destroy African Muslims, and because, let's face it, many people in Africa are butt ignorant of basic science.
This is a continent after all where a Minister for Health (SA) could advocate garlic and herbs and lemon juice and vitamins as a cure for HIV, where sex with virgins (often meaning the rape of babies and little girls) was held to be a protection against HIV (again SA), and where just this week it has been reported that a mass rape of women and baby boys took place as an act of war (Congo), and where rape of women has been happening as a means of government sponsored terror (Darfur) for years -- are you seriously trying to tell us that the Pope merely has to change his mind about condoms and the future will be bright for African women and girls? Men have ruled the African roost, unchallenged, with very few exceptions, for thousands of years.
What is so terrible about the Catholic Church (or the Mormons or Islam) preaching about respect for marriage, about taking vows seriously, about doing what western women would expect men to be doing after all (take a peek at the Relationship topic here if you think western women don't value fidelity in marriage/committed relationships).