Youth Groups Bid For Condom Sales

Youth Groups Bid For Condom Sales

Condoms

Condom use

Sexual health

Safer sex

AIDS organisations

AIDS (Disease)

HIV (Viruses)

HIV/AIDS

Two newspaper clippings of articles from the Evening Echo and Cork Examiner.

First page is a clipping of an article by Tommy Barker from the Evening Echo entitled "Youth Groups Bid for Condom Sales" and dated 13 February 1992. Discusses access to condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Mentions the national campaign by 'Condom Sense' - "a new group which has strong representation in Cork" and how "[n]ew Minister for Health Dr John O'Connell is to come under pressure from his own party's youth wing, Ógra Fianna Fáil to back moves for greater access to condoms".

Second page is a clipping from Cork Examiner entitled "Access to Condoms" and dated "14 February 1992". Mentions Fianna Fáil's youth wing, Ógra Fianna Fáil and the 'Condom Sense' campaign. Also mentions The Health (Family Planning) Act of 1979 and how the demand for contraception was changed by Mary McGee who "won an action in the supreme court allowing married people to purchase contraceptives on prescription in Ireland."

Evening Echo

Cork Examiner

Arthur Leahy Collection

1992-02-13

1992-02-14

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