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Free Female Condoms Available Soon in Washington DC

03/07/2010 13:31:00 admin

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If you are a woman in Washington DC, here is some good news for you. The city government will give away $500,000 worth of female condoms soon in parts of the city to help protect you and others against sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Within the next three weeks in parts of wards 1,2,3, 6 and 7 where a large number of African Americans have been found to engage in high risk heterosexual activity, the District will be the first in the United States to start distributing female condoms free of charge, Washington Post reported.

As many as 500,000 female condoms will be available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city where HIV rates are found high.

Male condoms have been distributed citywide for about a decade in an effort to help curb the spreading of HIV which causes a lethal disease known as AIDS. But many men don't use their protection.

City officials said female condoms will give women more power to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases when their partners refuse to use protection.

The District rate of HIV/AIDS has been found at about 3 percent, according to a 2008 report cited by Washington Post. But the city government says the real number could be close to 5 percent because only 60 percent of residents have ever been tested for the infection.

The $500,000 for the female condoms to be distributed for free came from the MAC AIDS Fund, a subsidiary of MAC Cosmetics which helps many city programs.

Offering free female condoms can be one good thing the city can do to help fight HIV/AIDS. A HIV Heterosexual Behavior Study reveals that 45 percent of survey respondents reported they had had sex outside the relationship and more than 70 percent said they did not use condoms.

Not all women may be interested in the free female condoms as the first version had disappointed many men and women. But this time, distributed will be a second version FC2, which has a thinner polyurethane that can better conduct body heat and deliver sexual sensation both for men and women.

By Jimmy Downs

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Comments (11 posted):

Mature Man on 03/07/2010 14:13:59

Have you ever tried a female condom? Picture your partner with material from an above ground plastic pool covering the critical parts. And you're supposed to push your way through the plastic. What a govt. waste of money!!

RR on 03/07/2010 14:15:20

female condoms for the governments female interns to protect themselves from nasty congressmen.

Mr. Beano on 03/07/2010 14:40:07

I hope the government will enjoy better sex now.

angiesf on 03/07/2010 14:44:23

This is one great big waste of money. Female condoms are nasty, feel like a plastic bag (no they are not latex), hard to insert and look really funky when in.

Education, testing, condoms work pretty dammed well.

Marlene on 03/07/2010 16:27:03

with the rate of the virus spreading in DC condoms are better than being infected whether you like them or not

No Jive on 03/07/2010 18:03:32

Why are we doing this when 80% of D.C. high school girls are already infected with sexually transmitted diseases. That's counting the fourteen year olds. The problem is a culture of irresponsibility promoted by President Obama with his free condoms and free healthcare plan. Work ethic, delayed gratification, and personal responsibility built America. Teach it.

ContrarianThought on 03/08/2010 04:12:03

@ No Jive: You r comment makes it obvious that you either ahv no sense of history, or that you are a Republican (because we ALL know Repubs don't have sex, right?). The abject ignorance inherent in a comment that places blame for a continuing social ill on a newly-elected president is so obviously indicative of a closed-door sign on your mind that I wonder why I even bothered to respond!

As for the rest of you, when did you start believing that just because MEN do not like wearing a certain type of condom, that it is 'okay' for them to bitch about a woman's choice to insist on wearing one to protect her own health? Such arrogance is precisely the reason why so many people get infected in the first place. Talk about naked self-interest!

keith on 03/10/2010 10:37:09

Society ills such as HIV and other STD's are a product of fornication and adultery. If childeren were taught and trained up in the ways of God, we would not have nearly as much of the STD's as we do. Just like Sodom and Gamorrah, there are consequences to immoral behavior. Sex has been distorted and turned into just a tool for pleasure. You reap what you sow! If we would repent and turn back to God, forsaking our evil ways, He would heal our land and take away these strange diseases. But if you are like most, and don't want to give up your pleasures, deal with the results and quit complaining. Once again, if we would keep God's commandments, we would be at liberty. Free from sin and it's consequences, which is bondage. Come to Jesus and live.

pozlove on 03/12/2010 07:30:54

CDC estimates that 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.

The number on HIVlover.com increase by 20%, while Cases of HIV/AIDS increase by 13% in 2009 in USA.

angiesf on 03/30/2010 05:10:41

Did someone mention bondage... Yum. Okay folks lets be real here. Not all folks are Christians, not all folks even as Christians are going to abstain. The best we can hope for is education which tackles things like abstience, condom use, safe sex practices. Education is the key and if we can just all get off our high horses and realize that not all folks are going to chose the lord and no sex and that folks just basically need pride in themselves, good parenting, good sex education, the exposer to things like waiting until you find the right person we might, just might reduce some of the infection rates.

Good news is that there is a HSV2 vaccine trail underway. Herpies (HSV2) is incurable and this could be a big step forward in help protect kids from at least on one to these.

Don't forget, vaccinate the girls against the wart virus, vaccinate kids against Hep B. and make sure they know about safe sex and the safest sex is no sex but if they can't do the no sex they at least have the best information out there.

Sonia on 04/22/2010 00:30:52