Many African organizations who are struggling to provide education about condom use as the tidal wave of HIV/AIDS on that continent just gets bigger, watched the American presidential race with great interest, all believing that Obama could be a real god-send in helping overturn some of the Bush policies on STD and birth control prevention.
Some [...]

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During history’s headiest, and certainly most expensive, political campaign, Republican candidate John McCain was asked “Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?” McCain‘s answer to the reporter who asked the question? After a long pause, all he could come up with was “You’ve stumped me.”
This led the most important pro-birth control organization [...]

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Melbourne – Starpharma Holdings Limited announced today that their VivaGel, a vaginal microbicide gel under development for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including genital herpes and HIV infection, has been approved in Japan as a patent registration.
This approval means that VivaGel and the VivaGel coated condom are now covered by granted patents in all [...]

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Yes sure, condom fashion has been done before it’s nothing new. Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini for example devotes her whole time to condom dresses and art projects. But nevertheless it was a very special occasion last Wednesday (15th of October) when national designers met for the “Evening of Hope Condom Couture“.
The fashion show organized by [...]

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Bandundu - So far we’ve reported about condoms used as football sock rubber bands and as action movie tools. And as the title already gives away, some people in Congo, in the province of Bandundu have found a way to use condoms as shoe polish. To be more exact it is their lubricant that has [...]

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PARIS, France - The Pope’s visit to the French capital Paris went down smoothly on Saturday the 13th of September - with one exception.
The head of the Catholic Church gave a traditional speech at Les Invalides, in the center of the city in front of 250′000 spectators. This was part of his trip to France, [...]

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Today condomunity and Troy Kennedy of thedebateclub have an easy message for you: Do some good with only a few clicks and support the Coke and Condoms Campaign. Join the Coke and Condoms facebook group. Invite your friends to join you. Digg this campaign, stumble it and talk about it. It’s pretty easy to see [...]

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John Travis who became one of the leading figures in the wellness movement in 1975 has released some results of the findings of a new study today. The study, “The Cost to Circumcise Africa, compared the cost of male circumcision to the cost of lifetime distribution of free condoms in sub-Saharan Africa. Not surprisingly if [...]

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It was in 1991 when the fight for AIDS funding in the US peaked. It is then when Sean Strub and six of his fellow activists of the “TAG7″ decided to “condomize” the house of US Senator Jesse Helms, a notorious opponent of safe-sex education and AIDS funding in the US.
They designed and ordered a [...]

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