Uganda: Female Condom - the Ignored Option for Women Against HIV

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-04-20 17:25

Article here. Excerpt:

'Kampala — ASK anyone if they have ever seen a condom and the answer will be 'yes'. Unfortunately, that answer only refers to a male condom. Few people, including women have seen a female condom despite its introduction as an alternative HIV/AIDS prevention method, 10 years ago.

The Government imported 1.5 million female condoms in 1999 but halted their distribution due to insufficient demand*.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is re-introducing them. However, critics say the ministry has not learnt lessons from its past mistakes, as people still hardly know anything about these condoms.'

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I love how we would rather run to butcher men's genitalia before even considering another option like female condoms.

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Submitted by BinaryShadow on Tue, 2009-04-21 14:04

as well female condoms are less likely to break, add better protection against contact std's and unwanted pregnancy. But because it's politically incorrect for women to be responsible for birth control, and condoms are the only form of quasi-reliable birth control designed for a man, women's spokes people would force women to have added risks to satisfy the spokes people's personal political agenda.

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Submitted by darc on Tue, 2009-04-21 16:16