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Community groups and public health advocates are calling on CVS to change its unfair condom lock-up policy. We'll be out in four cities today but support is already coming out online:Gary J. Bell, executive director of BEBASHI (Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues), said in an e-mail, "The practice of 'locking up condoms' in low-income neighborhoods, especially communities of color where rates of HIV, STI's [sexually transmitted diseases] and pregnancy continue to soar, is both short-sighted and dangerous.Locked condoms spark protest [Metro Philadelphia]
"We face an HIV infection rate five times the national average," said Joanna Bouldin, of Change to Win. "As a woman, as someone who lives in Philadelphia I find it really appalling that a company that cares about health care" would lock up condoms.Earth To CVS: Stop Locking Up Condoms In Poor Neighborhoods [Philebrity]
CVS brass say that those stores do so because of shoplifting and -- pardon the word here -- shrinkage history, but the fact remains that this is an awful, awful policy: It puts a barrier between birth control and STD protection in places where it's often needed the most. So today at noon, protesters will gather at the Broad & Girard CVS in an effort to basically shame CVS into setting the jimmy hats free. Philebrity supports this protest -- CVS, there's gotta be another way.
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