Just when you think your contempt and loathing for the UN can sink no lower, they find a whole new bottom:
Bangkok - The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to contraceptives, a UN official says. - News24
The UN: Find a Need and Fill It
Posted by Vanderleun at May 22, 2008 12:10 PM | TrackBackCondoms can be used by the army - to keep water and debris from coming down the muzzle of the rifle barrel so the weapons will be ready if needed.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at May 22, 2008 3:02 PMHmm, they've stopped mentioning the manual vacuum aspirators included in the standard "reproductive health kits" the UN sends into disaster areas. The probably focus-grouped even worse than the condoms. (Seriously, there was some complaining when the full contents of the "RH Kit" was mentioned in news reports after the Indian Ocean tsunami a few years ago.)
(What are the aspirators for? Well, when your country is hit by a natural disaster, isn't the first thing you think of the urgent need to restore proper abortion services? But alas there is a lack of electricity, hence the manually-operated aspirators.)
Sigh.
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