Posted by: dautari November 7, 2007
Nepalese Women Send Condoms To Husbands Working Overseas
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I saw this news on Boston Herald today. I went online and found similar news on some other newspapers published yesterday. This one's from The Canadian Press.

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Women in Nepal village urge fidelity but mail condoms to husbands overseas

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Women in a Nepal mountain village have been mailing condoms to their husbands working overseas to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, a Nepalese newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Kantipur newspaper reported that the women in the village of Pang began writing the letters after social workers counselled them about sexually transmitted diseases.

Although the women urged their husbands to remain faithful, many were also enclosing condoms just in case, it said.

"As I learned that unsafe relations make a person vulnerable to HIV, I sent a condom along with the letters to my husband," one of the village wives, Laxmi Sunar, told the newspaper.

An estimated three million people from impoverished Nepal work overseas, most as manual labourers, and send money home to support their families

 

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