Mad rush for condoms in Delhi Government offices

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Mad rush for condoms in Delhi Government offices

Agence France-Presse, New Delhi, February 4

More than 1,500 free condoms were picked up in two days when they

were kept in toilets in offices of the Delhi government, officials

said on Wednesday.

The condoms were picked up during trials of a free distribution drive

begun by the Delhi AIDS Control Society.

Banners were also put up in the various departments about AIDS

awareness and the free distribution.

" The response to the banners has been phenomenal, " said Piyush Jain,

the Society's deputy director (condoms). We are exhausting our stocks

twice as fast. "

Jain said on an average his department distributes about 4,000

condoms among staffers every month when they are placed in offices.

" Even women employees are coming. And no one is blushing, " said a man

sitting behind a condom machine.

With more than 4.6 million HIV-infected people, India has the second-

highest rate of HIV infections in the world after South Africa.

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