Readers like you keep news free for everyone.
More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.
For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.
Shutterstock/Photographee.eu
# in the bin
Ethiopia was given 69 million condoms... but might have to throw them all out
The condoms, worth millions, failed basic tests.
ETHIOPIA NEEDS TO toss out 69 million condoms that were paid for by international donors to fight the spread of AIDS because of their poor quality, local media reported Thursday.
The disease-defeating contraceptives were found to be defective by the Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA), a government body, according to a report on local station Radio Fana.
Agency director Meskele Lera said action was under way to force the condom supplier to, “reimburse the money and cover all costs in the discarding process”.
The $2 million (€1.8m) worth of condoms were reportedly manufactured by an unnamed Indian company and paid for by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria but failed basic tests.
Around 1.2 million Ethiopians have Aids, according to World Health Organization figures, equivalent to a prevalence rate of 2.4%, with significantly higher concentrations in the capital Addis Ababa.
