World's largest condom on display near Chennai

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World's largest condom on display near Chennai

Press Trust of India

Chennai, June 19

In a bid to create awareness about AIDS and role of condom in

prevention of the deadly disease, a 'water condom', billed to be the

world's largest, has been put on display near a lake close to Chennai.

The condom, measuring 300 feet in length and 30 feet in breadth, was

kept on display at the Muthukodu Boat House, about 60 km from

Chennai, by Indian Community Welfare Organisation, a non-governmental

agency involved in STD, HIV and AIDS prevention in Tamil Nadu since

the past nine years.

The condom, designed at a cost of Rs 90,000, was put on display by Dr

Krishnamurthy, Director, Tamil Nadu, Public Health Services, last

evening in the presence of Dr Bimal of Aids Prevention and

Control (APAC) funded by USAID.

The aim of the event was to disseminate information on the Sexually

Transmitted Diseases and reach larger public through media, ICWO

Secretary A J Hariharan said.

The ICWO had put up on display a 150 feet-long condom in the city

last year on the World Aids Day in association with the Tamil Nadu

Government.

The previous largest condom on record was 87 feet-long one fabricated

in France in 1997, Hariharan said. Efforts were on to include this

feat, sponsored by Hindustan Lever Limited, APAC and local rotary

clubs, in the Guinness Book of Records, he added.