Flavoured and coloured condoms, cool

“If condom use is indeed falling, then it is falling among students too,” said the director of Higher Education and Training of HIV and Aids Programme Ramneek Ahluwalia.

“So it is our duty to ask what will enable students and youth in general to protect themselves, and if blue or strawberry-flavoured condoms are the means to it, then we must do it,” said Ahluwalia.

Motsoaledi announced that the condoms would be available in tertiary institutions from next month.

Motsoaledi said that people were suffering from “condom fatigue” and the choice branded condoms which were free were “just not cool”.

A report by the Human Sciences Research Council highlighted that it was between the ages of 15 to 24 where the youth was most at risk of acquiring HIV.