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Jan

Condom donations from Thailand

Myanmar people currently use about 100,000 condoms a day. So these condoms would last about twelve hours. In Africa they will be used in the blink of any eye.

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Thailand Sends 50,000 Condoms to Africa
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
2 January 2006

On Friday, Thailand's Foreign and Health ministries donated 50,000 condoms as part of its "forward engagement" policy with Africa's fight against HIV/AIDS, he UN Development Program announced. UNDP will ship the condoms to Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda. In Thailand, about 550,000 Thais are infected, and AIDS is the leading cause of death. "This shipment is an expression of Thailand's interest in working with Africa to halt this killer in its tracks," said Joana Merlin-Scholtes, UN resident coordinator and UNDP representative for Thailand.

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