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VANCOUVER — Local health officials will provide up to 100000 free condoms to athletes and officials housed in the Vancouver and Whistler athletes villages during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The program isnt a comment on the level of testosterone displayed in the villages by young athletes, but an attempt to reinforce the message of controlling sexually transmitted diseases, Dr. Reka Gustafson, medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, said this week. UNAIDS and the [International Olympic Committee] have teamed up for some years now to have an HIV/AIDS awareness program at the Olympics, she said. It is a really good opportunity to use the profile of the Olympics to put positive health promotion messages out there and as part of that condoms are also distributed. Condoms have been available to athletes free of charge since at least the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona. The program has been met with success — and a measure of mirth — at some Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, the initial supply of 70000 quickly ran out and organizers had to order 20000 more. For the next Summer Olympics in Athens, officials brought in 130000 for the 10500 athletes — for an average of more than 12 for every athlete. Health officials at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin did not provide condoms at the polyclinics, but instead gave packages to each countrys team physicians. There were definitely no condoms in the washrooms in Turin or in common places …

I’mAlex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http A new website plans to use social media to help women in Egypt fight unwanted sexual attention. The website is harassmap.org. The idea is to offer different ways for women to report sexual harassment as soon as it happens. For example, they could send a text message by phone. Or they could report incidents directly through the website or through e-mail, Facebook or Twitter. The website will then map the reports with different colored dots. Purple, for example, represents unwanted touching. Blue is for loud, offensive comments or whistling. Rebecca Chiao helped create HarassMap. She says most of the reports gathered during testing include more than one offense. The site also lists whether or not a report has been confirmed.Mrs. Chiao is a former employee of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights. In two thousand eight the center released a report on sexual harassment in Egypt. Researchers interviewed more than one thousand women. This included more than one hundred foreigners living or traveling in Egypt. Ninety-eight percent of the foreign women said they had been sexually harassed. So did eighty-three percent of the Egyptian women. Rebecca Chiao says harassmap.org will help warn the public about areas where there is a high risk of harassment. It could also help police identify areas where security should be increased. And she says the system will provide another important …