Condoms too small for Ugandan men, new worry about
AIDS
KAMPALA: Ugandan MPs have been inundated with
complaints that many condoms on sale in the east African
nation are too small, warning the problem is a blow to the
fight against AIDS.
Insisting that one size doesn't fit all, MP Tom Aza said
Uganda's parliamentary committee for HIV/AIDS said a
recent tour of areas worst hit by the virus revealed that
some men "have bigger sexual organs and therefore should
be considered for bigger condoms."
"When it comes to action, when they're having sexual
activity, of course with the pressure, it bursts," he told NTV
Uganda.
"Some youth are complaining that the condoms they are
being given, some of them are too short, their organs can't
fit in them," MP Merard Bitekyerezo also told the channel.
Another committee member, Sarah Netalisile, said the size
issue was "exposing our younger boys and girls, and all
those users of condoms, to the acquiring of HIV and
NTV Uganda's report said the MPs would push for better
condom supplies and bigger sizes.
It is not the first time the penis size issue has been raised
to condom manufacturers.
In 2006, the Indian Council of Medical Research found 60
per cent of men in Mumbai had penises at least 2.4
centimeters (one inch) shorter than international condom
sizes, and that for 30 percent of men, the size deficit was
five centimeters (two inches).
AIDS is seen as being resurgent in Uganda after years of
decline, with as many as 80,000 people dying of the disease
every year.
From a peak of 18 percent infected in 1992, Uganda's "ABC"
strategy Abstinence, Be faithful, Condom helped slash
rates to 6.4 per cent in 2005.
But rates have crept back up to 7.2 per cent in 2012. As
many as 1.8 million people in the country now live with HIV,
and a million children have been orphaned after their
parents died of AIDS.
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AIDS
KAMPALA: Ugandan MPs have been inundated with
complaints that many condoms on sale in the east African
nation are too small, warning the problem is a blow to the
fight against AIDS.
Insisting that one size doesn't fit all, MP Tom Aza said
Uganda's parliamentary committee for HIV/AIDS said a
recent tour of areas worst hit by the virus revealed that
some men "have bigger sexual organs and therefore should
be considered for bigger condoms."
"When it comes to action, when they're having sexual
activity, of course with the pressure, it bursts," he told NTV
Uganda.
"Some youth are complaining that the condoms they are
being given, some of them are too short, their organs can't
fit in them," MP Merard Bitekyerezo also told the channel.
Another committee member, Sarah Netalisile, said the size
issue was "exposing our younger boys and girls, and all
those users of condoms, to the acquiring of HIV and
NTV Uganda's report said the MPs would push for better
condom supplies and bigger sizes.
It is not the first time the penis size issue has been raised
to condom manufacturers.
In 2006, the Indian Council of Medical Research found 60
per cent of men in Mumbai had penises at least 2.4
centimeters (one inch) shorter than international condom
sizes, and that for 30 percent of men, the size deficit was
five centimeters (two inches).
AIDS is seen as being resurgent in Uganda after years of
decline, with as many as 80,000 people dying of the disease
every year.
From a peak of 18 percent infected in 1992, Uganda's "ABC"
strategy Abstinence, Be faithful, Condom helped slash
rates to 6.4 per cent in 2005.
But rates have crept back up to 7.2 per cent in 2012. As
many as 1.8 million people in the country now live with HIV,
and a million children have been orphaned after their
parents died of AIDS.
http://m.timesofindia.com/world/rest...w/42907061.cms