The Female Condom Youths Advocates has described the lack of accessibility, affordability and availability of different brands of female condoms as a major reason driving away the interest of women from using it.
The programme and Communication Officer, Education As a Vaccine (EAV), Ms. Marian Patrick disclosed this Wednesday in Abuja at an event commemorating this year's
Global Female Condom Day 2015', where the group called on the government to address the case of stock out in public health facilities According to her, "most people don't use female condoms because they find it not accessible and not affordable, they don't have a choice, meaning that there is no diversification of brands unlike the male condoms where you can get several brands, for female condoms we don't have brands.
"The problem of accessibility in female condoms push their lack on interest, when a lady wants a female condom and she gets to primary health centre or a pharmacy, what she gets is FC2, and some people want varieties, so they prefer having other brands as a choice, and not having those brands is discouraging them to look for female condoms knowing fully well that they can't assess there own choice," Marian added.
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