Women Mail Condoms to Husbands Abroad

Nepal: Women Mail Condoms to Husbands Abroad.

KATMANDU in NEPAL-  Women in the Nepal mountain village of Pang have been mailing condoms to their husbands working overseas to protect them from AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, the Kantipur Newspaper reported on 6 november.

The women of Pang have been writing their husbands letters urging them not to have sex with others but they have been enclosing condoms just in case, Kantipur Newspaper reported.

Social workers have been counseling the women about sexually transmitted infections.

"As I learned that unsafe relations make a person vulnerable to HIV, I sent a condom along with the letters to my husband," one of the village wives, Laxmi Sunar, told the newspaper.
An estimated 3 million people from impoverished and poor Nepal work overseas, most as manual laborers, and send money home to support their families.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first discovered on June 5, 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. In 2005 alone, AIDS claimed an estimated 2.4–3.3 million lives, of which more than 570,000 were children. A third of these deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital.

Kantipur Newspaper - 8.11.2007

 

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