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title: "Today is Global Female Condom Day!"
date: 2012-09-12T21:37:43-04:00
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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# Today is Global Female Condom Day!

By Rachel Walden • September 12, 2012

Please note: This entry -- originally posted at [Our Bodies, Our Blog](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog) -- has not been updated since the publication date listed above.

[![global female condome day 9/12/2012](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/images/blog-archive/gfcd_logo_resized-300x300.jpg "gfcd_logo_resized")](http://www.nationalfccoalition.org/)Today is the first ever [Global Female Condom Day](http://www.nationalfccoalition.org/), intended to help raise awareness of the female condom as an option for pregnancy and HIV prevention. The female condom is the only available woman-initiated method available that offers dual protection.  
  
You can get involved by reviewing and sharing talking points on female condoms, downloading and posting sheets that invite onlookers to share why female condoms are important, and joining the conversation online.  
  
To find out more about what's happening today and what you can do, check out the [National Female Condom Coalition](https://www.facebook.com/NationalFCCoalition) page and the [Global Female Condom Day event](https://www.facebook.com/events/247288365383592/) on Facebook. The National Female Condom Coalition is also [tweeting](https://twitter.com/NatlFCCoalition) and encouraging online participation using the hashtag #GlobalFCDay.  
  
To learn more, check out our web content on female condoms and [read our previous posts](http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?s=female+condoms).

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**Alice** on Sep 13, 2012

t is estimated that there are around 215 million women worldwide who would like to limit or space the children they have, but who are not using any form of contraception... here's more on female condoms...http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/condom-couture/

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