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State bought millions of dodgy (female) doms

Cape Argus (South Africa), September 16, 2011 Zelda Venter

Millions of female condoms, which were not approved by the World Health Organisation, were  destined to be distributed by the Department of Health after the government wrongly approved  a tender for the condoms.
In a judgment in the Pretoria High Court yesterday, it emerged that the condom - of which at  least six million were to be distributed - was manufactured in China from polyurethane and  not the required nitrile latex.

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2011-09-16

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