The HSE is to spend €176,000 on distributing free branded condoms and lubricants to prevent crisis pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
UK company Pasante Healthcare has won the tender for the National Condom Distribution Service operated by the HSE as part of its Sexual Health Crisis Pregnancy Programme.
The contract requires Pasante to deliver approximately 1.5 million packets of condoms to a HSE storage facility in Kilcohan, Co Waterford, each year as well as 700,000 sachets of lubrication.