Swedish AIDS Victims May Get Free Condoms
From Reuters
STOCKHOLM —
A government agency has proposed giving free condoms to each AIDS victim in Sweden, saying this a cheap way of combatting the virus.
Kurt Danielsson, spokesman for the Social Welfare Board, which runs Sweden’s vast welfare system, told reporters on Friday: “It’s better to give them (AIDS victims) condoms than not to.”
About 1,200 people have been diagnosed as carriers of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus in Sweden.
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