The health department aims to distribute 40-million inner condoms per year to government health facilities. But orders from clinics and hospitals are so low that only 40% of this goal was achieved over the past four years. Here’s why
Around the world, the higher price of internal condoms plays a role in their reduced uptake — private health-care users in SA, who would have to pay for condoms, likely experience this as a barrier.For instance, though inner condoms are free at state health facilities, many people simply don’t know where to find them,found. External condoms are far more available than inner condoms at government facilities, especially in waiting areas .
But this was hampered by the fact that just over a third of health workers who participated in the study, and who were trained on how to use inner condoms, had never used the condoms themselves — and had questionable attitudes towards them: some described inner condoms as “weird”, “messy” or “inconvenient” .
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