{"id":16420,"date":"2014-09-20T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/condoms-too-small-for-uganda-men\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:40:41","slug":"condoms-too-small-for-uganda-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/condoms-too-small-for-uganda-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Condoms &#8216;too small&#8217; for Uganda men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{ Ugandan MPs have been inundated with complaints that many condoms on sale in the country are too small, warning the problem is a blow to the fight against AIDS.}<\/p>\n<p>Insisting that one size doesn&#8217;t fit all, MP Tom Aza said Uganda&#8217;s Parliamentary Committee for HIV\/AIDS said a recent tour of areas worst hit by the virus revealed that some men &#8220;have bigger sexual organs and therefore should be considered for bigger condoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to action, when they&#8217;re having sexual activity, of course with the pressure, it bursts,&#8221; he told local media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some youth are complaining that the condoms they are being given, some of them are too short, their organs can&#8217;t fit in them,&#8221; MP Merard Bitekyerezo also told the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Another committee member, Sarah Netalisile, said the size issue was &#8220;exposing our younger boys and girls, and all those users of condoms, to the acquiring of HIV and AIDS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ Ugandan MPs have been inundated with complaints that many condoms on sale in the country are too small, warning the problem is a blow to the fight against AIDS.} Insisting that one size doesn&#8217;t fit all, MP Tom Aza said Uganda&#8217;s Parliamentary Committee for HIV\/AIDS said a recent tour of areas worst hit by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000054073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000054073,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16420.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000054073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}