Condoms – Buy American
March 24, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
I read an interesting piece today on condom makers. Apparently, like many products today, they can be made cheaper in China.
USAID, United States Agency for International Development, a federally funded program that distributes 10 billion condoms to poor countries, in an attempt to help curb the spread of AIDS. They will no longer be distributing American-made condoms.
“Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus …read more




