Condom Day tomorrow

The 11th Condom Day will be observed on Saturday to educate people about the importance of use of condoms for birth spacing and disease prevention and create enabling environment to discuss condoms openly This year?s condom day would be observed with the theme of ?Proper Use of Condoms for Dual Protection?. The condom day has become a nationwide event with different communities, government agencies, NGOs and INGOs, marking it with different programmes.

More than 40 organisations including government agencies, private and non-governmental national and international organisations and media will be participating in to mark the Condom Day in collaboration with communities and individuals across the country. Thousand of volunteers and development workers are expected reach its message to the community in need.

Speaking at a press conference organised by Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), Director at the Department of Health Services Pitambar Aryal said that the day was for everyone, who have reached the reproductive age.

The day aims to increase awareness among men in family planning, about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease and create awareness among women about the importance of condom to protect them from STDs, HIV/AIDS and also birth control.

Aryal said that the NCRS started celebrating the day in 1995 and that year it was celebrated in 35 districts reaching over 50,000 people. Now, the day is institutionalised as an annual festival on the first Saturday after Dashain and this year the message will be reached to about 500,000 people across the country.

The country?s population has doubled in the last 30 years and at the present rate of 2.27 it will continue to grow. The total fertility rate in Nepal is currently 4.1 children per women. There are 62,000 estimated HIV infected people and the major route of transmission is heterosexual contact. Aryal said that increase in condom use could help to show population growth as well as prevent the transmission of disease.

Tek Bahadur Dangi of the Family Health Division said that initially condoms were primarily taken as a means for family planning. He said in 1990-91 only 0.5 per cent to 0.6 per cent couples used condoms and as means for and it reached 3.2 per cent in 2001.

Its your day dude. Congratulations to you.

Hey, everyone join me in congratulating jahid on this great day.

After all, if the condom was not broken, Jahid would never have been born ha ha ha

Thanks Jahid to bring up this topic. I had almost forgotten about the special days in Nepal. People can do simple search on Condom Day through Nepal Red Cross Society's website, or other organizations working on HIV/AIDS/STD awareness.

I encourage abstinence, however, for those who can't control, please USE CONDOM, PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. Read a sad real life story at
- http://www.geocities.com/parakhi2/suntali.pdf

ha ta baut shuv samachar lyayi halnu bhayecah.........voli tyasobhaye condom lagayera ramailo garilinu parcha
koi ketihaurli pani condom diwas manaune iccha lagecha bhane mero samprk ma turunt ayihalnus, bholi bihan dekhi nai manaunu parcha

Jahid ji
Hmm... thanx for bringing attention that its the condom day. Btw u look interested in catalyst not the reactant. Anyway, Condom diwas mero school ko health centere bata suru garne ho ki. TAKE AS MUCH AS U WANT.
LOL

is it a national holiday in jahidland?

here is dhal bhahdur

We have a long history of Condom Day in Nepal.
- http://www.ifrc.org/docs/news/03/03102102/

Congrats jahid!!Many happy returns of the day. what does your book say tho?? Is it good or bad, to use I meant:P:P hey no offence tho.

HAPPY CONDOM DAY TO ALL NEPALESE BROTHERS AND SISTERS !

Happy Condom DAY!!!

Condom day is looking incomplete without good wishes from the ladies.