Germany has donated the equivalent of about US $2.2 million to Burkina Faso to allow it to sell condoms more cheaply, AFP reported on Thursday, quoting from a German embassy statement. The money would enable the public to buy a pack of four condoms for 50 FCFA (US $0.07). Providing cheaper condoms falls within an anti-HIV campaign that the government launched in 1994 and which had so far received US $8.8 million.
Burkina Faso and its southern neighbour, Cote d’Ivoire, are among the countries worst affected by AIDS in West Africa.
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