By The Numbers
A lot of condoms. A lot:
Posted: September 18th, 2008 | Filed under: Survey Says!/La Encuesta Dice!The Mayor’s Management Report, issued yesterday, showed that the Health Department gave away 39,070,000 male condoms to community groups in fiscal 2008, which ended on June 30.
That’s enough for every man, woman and child in the city six times over.
It was more than double the previous year’s 17,770,000.
The price tag of the rubbers was put at $1,054,228, which doesn’t include the bill for some 2 million female condoms.
Proponents argued that’s not much compared to the $350,000 lifetime cost for medicating a single person with AIDS.