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Female Health Company receives initial order from Indian government for female condoms

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 5th, 2006

The Female Health Company (FHCO) announced it has received an initial order for 500,100 FC Female Condoms (FC1) for the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, government of India.

The order was placed through UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The condoms will be used in NACO's Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS prevention programs and distribution will initially be focused on commercial sex workers in four high prevalence states in India.

NACO estimated the number of HIV infected individuals in India in 2004 was 5.1 million, making India the country with the second largest HIV population, behind...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-06-05)

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