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Female condoms to help prevent disease
By Liu Li (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-11 05:29

The FC is on the WHO/UNAIDS Essential Products List.

The FC has received regulatory approval in the United States, Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada and regulatory registrations in multiple countries.

The number of female HIV carriers is rising, said Zhao Pengfei, co-ordinator for HIV/AIDS/STI and Reproductive Health with the China office of the World Health Organization.

Among the current 42 million HIV carriers in the world, half are women, according to Zhao.

And over half are female among the newly-emerged virus carriers, he said.

However, the Family Planning Commission (FPC) and the China Disease Control and Prevention Centre (CDC), while endorsing FCs, did not seem wildly enthusiastic about widespread acceptance.

The main reasons are cost, acceptability by both women and men and methods of usage.
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