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Tell CVS to unlock the condoms!

CVS is one of the nation’s largest pharmacy and drugstore chains. With more than 6,000 stores across the country, they are a major provider of condoms to people of all ages. However, a recent study showed that CVS stores in low income and minority neighborhoods tend to lock up condoms. Often times these stores are in communities where the rates of HIV infection are the highest.

Advocates for Youth, in partnership with the Cure CVS Campaign, is working with colleague organizations to push CVS to adopt a policy that would prohibit stores from locking condoms behind glass. CVS’s largest competitor, Walgreens, already has a policy in place forbidding locked condom cases. It’s time that CVS does the same!

Check out our new campaign page and tell CVS to unlock the condoms!! 
 

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Mandy Dommaschk is a Senior from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. She started a "Safer Sex is Sexy" campaign on her campus and distributed condoms throughout the month of February.

 
 

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Monday, April 13, 2009 at 9:49:00 AM EDT
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Last night the easter distribution (for the Great American Condom Campaign) went off without a hitch! Myself and a few friends filled plastic easter eggs with condoms and slips of paper with STD facts. Then, wearing our Easter bunny ears of course, went around campus at about 3am putting 200 condom-filled eggs everywhere we could think of. We also gave out egss to people we saw walking around campus. Everyone loved it! Walking to class this morning I saw several eggs that no one had noticed yet but I'm sure they will be founf before the end of the day. I'm seeing and overhearing people talking about them and enjoying the little messages inside advotcating safe sex. It makes me proud!

Distribution Event #1 = SUCCESS!

More will follow.

P.S. My basket on my dorm door has slowed in its need to constantly be re-filled. I think the students on my floor might have finally gotten their fill! :-)

Friday, April 10, 2009 at 2:33:00 PM EDT
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So far my condom distribution (for the Great American Condom Campaign) has gone really well. On April 1st, I gave away about 150 of them at a Campus Women's Coalition table in the Union. At the table, we were telling people about the dangers of fake clinics. So many of fake clinics tell young women half-truths from old studies when these young women need real facts and help or Plan B or birth control or access to abortion.

I went to a fake clinic in Sioux Falls, SD, and all they cared about was if I was pregnant. I took their free over-the-counter pregnancy test and as soon as they found out I wasn't pregnant and asked if "I knew who the baby's father would have been," they were basically done with me. They didn't offer me STD information and when I asked, they handed me a stack of pamphlets on abstinence, second virginity, and how condoms don't work. The 'counselor' even assured me that "We in the medical profession don't worry about a missed period. Just don't have sex until your next period at least to make sure." She ended all of this nonsense with a prayer, thanking God that I was on my parents insurance, that I was a student, and for other things she read off my stack of forms.

All of the half-truths and them pushing their conservative agenda angered me. Vulnerable women need to know that fake clinics can't be trusted. So I took the Feminist Majority Foundation's idea and did Don't Be Fooled Day with CWC. I plastered the busiest buildings on campus with posters that said in giant letters "DON'T BE FOOLED! Come to the Union..." And it worked. We were able to expose these fake clinics and encourage people to use things that actually work - condoms, birth control, Planned Parenthood services, etc. 

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Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12:51:00 AM EDT
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I've just typed up a little note to go with the condoms when I pass them out.

The Great American Condom Campaign strives to spread the word about sexual health. So here’s a freebie condom! If you don’t want it, please pass it along to someone who does. Have responsible fun! =)


At the bottom I also added my name, room number (in my dorm), GACC SafeSite, and the Amplify website.

I'm going to go print out around 200 copies of the above note (yes! at 1 in the morning!) and then execute my plan tomorrow.

Here's the plan =p:
There are 5 floors of Freshmen girls in my dorm with approximately 400 or so girls residing collectively. Each room has a different occupency ranging from one person to four people. Luckily for me - or else I would have a huge mess on my hands - the door of each dorm room has a name tag for each girl in that room. I'm going to slip the appropriate number of condoms under the door - thank god the condoms are in boxes! - with one of my notes. And VOILA! I will have spread the word about the GACC, handed out awesome freebies, AND given them my information so that they may come back to my dorm for more if they have the need.

As an extra measure, I'm going to post one of the pre-made flyers called Condoms: Get the Facts on the message boards on each floor!

Well that's all for tonight. I basically wanted to get my first blog up and say a little bit about my SafeSite plans.
Have a good one!

Sincerely,
Alex =)