Nancy Netshituni speaks to African Alliance about creating a more inclusive inner condom for the visually impaired and what women on the ground have reported about using the FC2.
This article is part of an African Alliance series celebrating 25 years of the inner condom in South Africa and the people who helped to establish the world’s biggest state-funded inner condom project.
Nancy Netshituni is Blind SA’s Gauteng representative. The organisation facilitates the dignity and independence of blind and visually impaired South Africans, through employment, education, mobility, and braille services. They also lobby for the rights of blind and visually impaired through advocacy work.
Netshituni has also worked at the Department of Human Settlements as a supply chain practitioner in Gauteng for the last 11 years so getting supplies that can save lives into people’s hands is something close to her heart
She’s conducted interviews in Gauteng about the use of inner condoms specifically with women.
Some women find it bothersome, because when they insert it a few hours before sex, they are conscious of it and can feel it while they walk. This is a common misconception and the FC2 can be inserted just before sex as well.
“A woman can make her own choice on using a female condom,” says Netshituni about the positives of the inner condom.
Netshituni wants to see braille on the packet of the condom – just like it has been done for paracetamol.
She also wants each flavour, colour, and brand to be labelled in braille, so the visually impaired can choose which one they want to use.
Did you know that SAMESH in Australia have condom & lube packs with braille on them? It can be done, so let’s join Nancy in her fight for a more inclusive world.
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