Condoms as common as cabbage

Condoms as common as cabbage THE SUN BEIJING: The once prudish Chinese government is hoping to make condom use as common as eating cabbage and will distribute more than 300 million of them to help curb AIDS. The government signed a deal on Tuesday with the Gaobang Latex Products Manufacturing Company for 305 million condoms that will be purchased by a special HIV/AIDS fund, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The condoms will be distributed to centres for disease control which will deliver them to hotels and public entertainment places. Forty-two hotels in the provincial capital of Guilin have already received batches, it said. ?AFP