Manufacturer To Donate 350,000 Trojan Brand Condoms to Washington, D.C., For City's HIV Prevention Efforts

[read the important note on Trojan below...]

About 350,000 Trojan brand condoms are being donated to Washington, D.C., in an effort to "salvage the city's battered condom distribution program in its fight against" HIV/AIDS, the Washington Post reports. According to a spokesperson
for Mayor Adrian Fenty, the shipment from Church and Dwight Co., Inc. -- the New Jersey-based company that manufactures the condoms -- is expected to arrive by the end of the month. City officials anticipate that the Trojan condoms will supplement and not replace the hundreds of thousands of condoms distributed at no-cost by the Department of Health, according to the Post (Levine, Washington Post, 9/12).

District health officials in February distributed 250,000 condoms as part of the health department's efforts to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. The first batch of condoms went to several not-for-profit organizations and community health providers. The department said it aimed to distribute one million condoms by the end of 2007. The condoms' purple and yellow package is printed in English and Spanish and carries the slogan, "We've got you covered. Coming together to stop HIV in D.C."

Read the rest on the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS report.

[***LifeLube note - it's too bad Trojan still insists on putting N-9 in some of its condoms - a spermicide that can cause epithelial damage and actually make it easier for HIV to be transmitted. Many in the prevention community have been trying to get Trojan to stop using N-9 - to no avail. When using Trojan condoms, make sure you are not using ones with N-9!]