Word: condomize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Months of planning will come to a head today as condom machines are installed in all the Houses and the Freshman Union...
...have heard, the AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided," the pamphlet says. "You won't get AIDS from clothes, a telephone or from a toilet seat." Instead, the virus is transmitted by "sharing drug needles and syringes; anal sex, with or without a condom; and vaginal or oral sex with someone who shoots drugs or engages in anal...
...University of California at San Francisco have calculated the odds of heterosexual transmission. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that the chance of getting AIDS ranges from 1 in 500 for a single act of intercourse with an infected partner when no condom is used to 1 in 5 billion if a condom is used with a partner who has tested negative for AIDS antibodies. Their suggestion for lowering the odds: know your partner well...
...hurry love, no, you'll just have to wait--until Harvard resolves a liability dispute with the company that was scheduled to install condom vending machines in dormitories this week...
Reaction in the Vatican, which flatly opposes condom education, ranged from silence to cold fury. "I would hope they'd get the statement straightened out soon -- before Christmas," snapped a Curia staff member. If the Americans do not act, he vowed, "Rome will." But a ranking Vatican official said no quick response is anticipated. Pope John Paul's thinking may become known in February, when the first of several contingents of American bishops arrives in Rome for periodic in-person reports to the Pontiff...