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Condoms get chewing tobacco, betel nut treatment in India
0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India's largest contraceptive-maker is flooding the market with condoms flavoured with a popular mixture of betel nut and tobacco known as paan in the latest initiative in the fight against AIDS.
State-owned Hindustan Latex Ltd. said it has so far supplied eight million packets of condoms laced with the pungent and bitter mixture to their main market -- sex workers in western India.
"We are giving the paan-flavored condoms... it is hugely favored by the sex workers," company spokesman S. Jayaraj told AFP Tuesday.
An aid group supported by the Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation, which is heavily involved in the fight against AIDS in India, told the firm that sex workers preferred it to more usual flavourings such as banana and strawberry....
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