Indian agency orders 1.5 million female condoms

ERJ staff report (DS)

Chicago, Illinois -- The Female Health Company (FHC) said its technical collaboration with Hindustan Latex Ltd (HLL) has won an order from the National AIDS Control Organization of India. The order, for one and a half million (1,500,000) female condoms, will be manufactured in Kochi, India, in HLL's newly commissioned factory. The female condom will be "FC2", the Nitrile polymer version of FHC's female condom.

The technical collaboration between the FHC and HLL has been partly funded by the British Government's Department for International Development through the Business Linkages Challenge Fund. The fund shares costs and risk with business partnerships for improved competitiveness, increased market access and to benefit the poor in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. For more details of the partnership visit

O.B. Parrish, Chairman and CEO of FHC. said that, "This order is the result of HLL's and Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust's (HLFPPT) commitment to make the female condom accessible to the men and women of India. For the past 18 months, the HLFPPT have socially marketed the female condom in 8 states of India with high HIV prevalence as part of a pre-programme assessment. We are delighted to see a major scale up of this program and especially proud to have enabled production to commence in India for the Indian market. This is the first initiative of its kind."

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Press release from Female Health Company