The Comeback of the Female Condom
Washington, D.C. – Health Officials announced a donation of $500,000 from MAC AIDS Fund for the promotion and distribution of female condoms. The project marks a striving alliance of private and public organizations: the CVS, the distributor of condoms; the Female Health Co., a condom manufacturer; District of Columbia; and the MAC AIDS Fund, the philanthropic supporter of the said cause.
Female condom has not been well used in developed countries, though developing countries are increasingly using them to control the population growth and to control the STDs. Female condom is a device that is used during partners’ intercourse. This serves as a barrier contraceptive and to reduce transmitted infections such as gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV.
Despite optimism and campaigns to promote the said contraceptive, studies conducted by the Center for Disease Control reported that a very low percentage of American women had ever used the female condom. “Female condoms are sort of an oddity. I don’t know if it’s the female part or the condom part or a combination,” says Nancy Mahon, director of the MAC AIDS Fund.
Promoters of the female condom foresees a more positive respond from women as the quality has improved and the cost is now very much cheaper. “That reduced the wholesale prices to about a third of the initial price, which made it feasible to add onto our condom-distribution program,” even after the MAC grant ends, says Shannon Hader, director of the HIV/AIDS administration within the D.C. Department of Health.
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