N-9 Condom Safety GAO Evaluation Requested By Reps. Coburn, Pitts
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Republican Reps. Tom Coburn (Okla.) and Joseph Pitts (Penn.) have requested a General Accounting Office investigation into the potential harm caused by federal distribution of condoms with nonoxynol-9 microbicide.
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