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Cuba moves to end condom shortage by selling expired condoms
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2014 Apr 22, 3:53am 2,690 views 8 comments
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Strategist
2014 Apr 23, 9:37am
You could build a hell of a raft with a million condoms.
Hoping to resolve a shortage of condoms that has sparked complaints around Cuba, the island’s public health system has approved the sale of more than one million prophylactics with apparently expired dates.
Pharmacy sales personnel must explain to the buyers that the condoms are good and simply have the wrong expiration dates, said a report Saturday in Vanguardia, the newspaper of the Communist Party in the central province of Villa Clara.
ha ha ha - pathetic.
They're not expired, they're recycled.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Apr 24, 1:44am
That would make a good Trojan publicity stunt, build a raft with (X) amount of condoms, then raft from say Bimini to Ft Lauderdale, and count how many survived the salt, weights, sun and the trip.
It would show how strong they are.
Strategist
2014 Apr 24, 1:56am
That would make a good Trojan publicity stunt, build a raft with (X) amount of condoms, then raft from say Bimini to Ft Lauderdale, and count how many survived the salt, weights, sun and the trip.
It would show how strong they are.
Atleast they can have safe sex on the way.
Ceffer
2020 Sep 24, 11:32am
A lot more excited, croaking Cubans on flights.
Patrick
2020 Sep 24, 5:31pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8767527/Police-seize-324-000-used-condoms-washed-resold-raid-factory.html
HeadSet
2020 Sep 24, 6:19pm
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/20/4070346/cuba-moves-to-end-condom-shortage.html
Hoping to resolve a shortage of condoms that has sparked complaints around Cuba, the island’s public health system has approved the sale of more than one million prophylactics with apparently expired dates.
Pharmacy sales personnel must explain to the buyers that the condoms are good and simply have the wrong expiration dates, said a report Saturday in Vanguardia, the newspaper of the Communist Party in the central province of Villa Clara.
A Vanguardia report April 3 on the shortage said that the government agency in charge of certifying medical items in 2012 had noticed erroneous expiration dates on the “Moments†prophylactics imported from China.
The agency ordered the condoms be repackaged with the correct dates, the newspaper added. But the state-run enterprise repackaging the more than one million condoms in stock does not have enough workers to process the 5,000 condoms a day required just in Villa Clara province.
Vanguardia did not publish the “wrong†dates, but its report hinted that they showed the prophylactics had expired or would soon expire. The shelf life of condoms is very long, it said.
“Although the lots are in optimal conditions, under the certificate of the Center for the State Control of Medicines and Medical Equipment the condoms could not be sold without the new expiration date, December of 2014,†Vanguardia reported Saturday.
“Due to the irregularities in the repackaging, which has provoked prolonged absences of the prophylactics throughout the country, the Public Health Ministry authorized the sale of the ‘Moments’ condoms in their current packages,†on April 4, the newspaper said.
Several Cuban bloggers commented acridly on the shortage long after April 4, with some noting that it could lead to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases as well as unwanted pregnancies and abortions.