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"As if I needed another reason to love Lady Gaga or Cyndi Lauper. The two singers are the new faces, er voices, of MAC&amp;amp;#8217;s Viva Glam campaign. As any gal worth her weight in lipstick will tell you, 100% of the profits from Viva Glam products are donated to HIV/AIDS education and research efforts. Awesome, right? It gets better. Earlier this week, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund, five non-profit organizations in Washington, DC (Calvary Healthcare, Inc.; Community Education Group; Our Place, DC; Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and the Women&amp;#x27;s Collective) teamed up to raise HIV/AIDS and STD awareness. Washington, DC has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the country. What&amp;amp;#8217;s unique about this partnership is that the non-profits involved are promoting the availability of female condoms as a tool for empowering women to protect themselves. The groups say that because some women feel they can&amp;amp;#8217;t &amp;amp;#8220;negotiate&amp;amp;#8221; for safer sex, the female condom is another way to help put that power and decision directly into the hands of women. The condom they&amp;amp;#8217;re promoting, the FC2, is approved by the FDA and it appears on the WHO Essential Products List. While I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never used a female condom, I love the idea of giving women more options to take control of our own bodies. So much in fact, that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve decided to conduct a little research this weekend. You guessed it; I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to give the female condom a try. And of course, report back to you with my findings. Have you used a female condom before? Did you love it? Hate it? Why do you think female condoms aren&amp;amp;#8217;t very popular? P.S. If you have specific questions about condoms or birth control, click here to submit them to Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s Dr. Hilda Hutcherson. Wrap it up with these condom stories&amp;amp;#133; * Sarah from Vitamin G asks if you&amp;amp;#8217;ve used the female condom. * How did you celebrate National Condom week? * Yikes. Condoms made especially for pre-teen boys. More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photos: MAC and FC2."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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