Huckabee and AIDS

In a recent interview with CNN, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee hesitated at suggesting taxpayer money be used to distribute condoms in AIDS-stricken Africa. Citing the anti-condom argument of many religious abstinence-promoters, Huckabee said that we should focus on educating the African public that condoms are not 100% effective at preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS. He says he doesn't want them to have a "false sense of security". What he fails to mention is that condoms are actually 97% effective at preventing the transmission of STDs, including HIV. Huckabee admits that using condoms is more effective than not using them, and shouldn't that understated reasoning be enough to grant condom distribution funding? Or is Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, too afraid of upsetting the sex-hating conservative religious "base"?