What We Do
Houston female condom advocates with their FCs helped launch the Houston campaign on National Women’s and Girls’ HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in 2011. / Pam Collins photographer
The Houston female condom campaign is a collaborative of community organizations, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and AIDS Foundation Houston as the co-chairs. Its promotes the awareness and use of female condoms as form of both birth control and STI prevention. As with other cities with high HIV/STI rates, we recognized the need to spearhead a movement for female condoms in the Houston area.
We focus on training providers to effectively promote female condoms among the communities they serve. When providers incorporate female condom promotion into their outreach, condom distribution, and risk reduction education efforts, they can increase the number of people in our community why try and then regularly use female condoms
Houston Project Partners promote female condoms through one-on-one education, group education, health fairs and many other ways.
Where to Get Female Condoms in Houston
Female condoms are available at many Walgreens pharmacies in the Houston area. View a list of participating Walgreens stores. Take advantage of the Female Health Company’s FC2 Finder. Text “findFC2” to 877877 to find FC2s near you.
Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved with the Houston female condom campaign. Here are just a few:
- Attend a training for health educators and service providers and learn how to confidently promote and answer questions about the female condom. Email us to set up a training at your agency or organization.
- Become a Project Partner. Email the campaign to learn more about how you can join us in educating the community.
- Once trained, you can help us educate others at health fairs, community events and distribute condoms throughout Houston. Contact us through email to find out which event we’ll be at next!
