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Gloria Oladipo

University of Idaho says staff can offer condoms for STDs – not birth control

Condoms can only be issued to students to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, the University of Idaho advises its staff last week.
Condoms can only be issued to students to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, the University of Idaho advises its staff last week. Photograph: Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Condoms should only be provided to students to prevent sexually transmitted infections, not as birth control, according to a memo sent by the University of Idaho to staff last week.

The memo, first obtained by the Idaho Press and issued to all employees on Friday, laid out the university’s reproductive policies following the enactment of Idaho’s abortion law, which bans the procedure in nearly all cases.

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