Visitors urged to ‘play it safe’ with World Cup condom giveaway
A form into ~s of South African hoteliers is to distribute 160,000 free condoms to press on World Cup guests to “play it safe”.
The condoms are mixed one million to be given out by the Department of Health for the period of the tournament in a country with one of the world’s highest HIV-infected populations. They behest be left in rooms at about 100 hotels. Instructions for exercise will be included.
“We are distributing one million condoms athwart the country,” said Kai Crooks-Chissano, project manager at the South African Business Coalition adhering HIV/Aids.
“We thought one of the best places on this account that condom use might just be in the bedrooms. Good sex is protected sex.”
The condom packaging has been branded in a company with tourist associations and hotel chains. Cape Town Tourism adopted the word “play it safe in Cape Town”, while the Southern Sun connected series will offer condoms branded “I am responsible” at 60 hotels.
The accord.-away feeds into South Africa’s boosted AIDS efforts, with a massive counselling and testing drive to target 15 million South African by next June.
Last week South African Aids organisations accused Fifa of blocking means of approach to condoms and HIV education materials at World Cup stadiums and cool parks.
Fifa denied that it had undermined the activities of the political division’s HIV testing campaign.
An estimated 5.7 million South Africans are HIV-absolute, according to the UN Aids agency, with the country now vaunt the world’s largest treatment programme after years of failure to arrange life-saving drugs.