DC To Fight AIDS with Female Condoms

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Emily

Washington, DC will become the first city in the US to incorporate female condom distribution in its fight against HIV/AIDS. The city’s HIV rates are notoriously high, with rates reaching 3% of the population– higher than West African statistics, and about on par with Kenya and Uganda. The initiative will include providing free female condoms [...]

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Female Condom- Reinvented

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Emily

Today I read this CNN Money article about reinventing the Female Condom. Though it was invented more than 20 years ago, its taken all this time for the product to turn a profit. Bidia Deperthes, an HIV/AIDS technical advisor for the U.N Population Fund states that: “It is a woman issue, and our policy makers all over the [...]

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