The female condom is designed to protect women against sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS, and unwanted pregnancies.
Bihar is facing an acute shortage of condoms meant for free distribution for ensuring birth control and safe sex to fight out the AIDS menace.
Vatican leaders claim HIV, being several times smaller than the sperm, can pass through tiny holes in condoms.
A sports goods manufacturer in Jalandhar has invented the idea of using condom on the hook of the stick to make it smoother and stronger.
Local medicine store owners at Bodh Gaya said that the sale of condoms had suddenly had increased three to four times during Kalachakra puja, thanks to arrival of devotees from across the world.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who inaugurated the new Rs 24.70 crore unit with an added capacity of 283 million pieces to the plant's exisisting capacity, said the public sector unit with production facilities here and Belgaum with an annual production capciaty of 1.32 billion condoms already possessed ten per cent of the global share.
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The public prosecutor has accused Alves of forcing the woman to have sex without her consent and without using a condom. The 23-year-old woman testified behind a screen with her voice distorted to protect her identity.
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"AIDS cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems," he told media persons on March 17 while on his way to Cameroon.
The city of Leizpig will hand out World Cup "first aid" packages including condoms and tissues to soccer fans.
A bunch of young teens have fashioned a unique "smart condom" that will glow a different colour if a person has STD.
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Soft drink giant Pepsi has been ordered to pay over Rs 1 lakh (Rs 100,000) compensation by a Delhi consumer court after a man found a condom inside a sealed bottle of the company.
This is the kind of film to watch with friends and maybe a six-pack. It has some risqu bits but nothing so vulgar that the pause button would need to be hit if Mummyji walks into the room, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Former chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women Barkha Shukla Singh on Thursday condemned the advertisement of condom featuring Sunny Leone saying it serves "immorality and bad practices" to the people.
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It's just five days since the Games kicked off and -- no prizes for guessing -- more then 10,000 condoms have already been used. By the end of it the number could double.
The government is planning a pilot study soon to examine acceptability of the female condom before including it in the national programmes of family planning and AIDS control.
In 2011, RB and TTK had dragged each other to court over TTK-LIG, the joint venture set up for manufacturing condoms.
The head of a social marketing organisation in Delhi shows how the repackaging is done. With his thumb he pushes a condom out of the sealed Nirodh strip and into a new foil open at one end. He does not touch the condom; just uses the condom lubricant to aid the transfer.
Men everywhere beware, for 'Condometric' has come to town -- a condom with a measuring ruler printed on the side that will accurately determine the size of the wearer's penis.
Atul Anjan claimed such ads promoted sexuality and ruined people's sensibilities.
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Quite a few Hindi films have taken up issues related with sex, and managed to shine the torch on some pertinent issues.
The company said that it would not mind pulling out the product from the MP market if the state government objected to its sale.
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A minister of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh also sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to stop its import.
The three-judge panel denied a request by Alves's lawyer Ines Guardiola for the trial to be suspended on the basis that he was not given enough time to prepare for his first police interview after his arrest and had suffered a parallel trial by media.
'The minute I tell couples to use condoms or suggest permanent birth control, they ignore it or just change the topic.'
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Early-stage cervical cancer may not exhibit noticeable symptoms, warns Dr Abha Bhalerao, consultant gynaecologist at Ruby Hall Clinic. But remember, cervical cancer is curable, preventable and treatable.
Once the shock value and comic potential of a woman selling condoms runs out, Janhit Mein Jaari loses its mojo, observes Deepa Gahlot.
If you're not comfortable with the idea of period sex, there are other ways to be intimate with your partner, such as cuddling or kissing, suggests gynaecologist Dr Archana Dhawan Bajaj.
Former Newcastle United striker Faustino Asprilla is entering the world of business by designing and selling fruit-flavoured condoms in his native Colombia.
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