Failing Women, Withholding Protection
A new report by international agency Oxfam says health officials have wasted 15 years and countless lives by willfully ignoring the best available invention to help protect women from HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases - the femal condom.
The report, 'Failing Women, Withholding Protection, calls disgraceful' the fact that female condoms have been so poorly funded and ignored by policy makers that they remain largely unavailable and too expensive for most women to buy.
Oxfam said that studies have shown a high level of acceptability for the female condom up to 97% in India for instance - amongst men and women. Female condoms remain the only existing primary prevention method for women. Yet just one model of female condom has been marketed since its invention in 1993.
Publication Date:
6 August 2008 
