Indian censoring authorities want to ban daytime screening of a advertisement promoting 'XXX' strawberry, chocolate and banana flavored condoms. They perceive the catch line "what is your flavor of the night" as offensive. The Chairperson of the censor board of India, Sharmila Tagore expressed his thinking on the ads in strong words to the Times of India newspaper.

Zimbabwean hairdressers will give free condoms to their clients under an innovative program to reduce HIV infection, backed by a $37 million grant from the British government. The hairdressers have been recruited under a five-year campaign to reduce new infections by increasing testing and encouraging safer sex.

A Ukrainian firm has designed musical condom which plays music while in use. The prophylactic also boasts the ability to play music louder and faster as lovers reach a climax. Grigoriy Chausovsky, from Zaporozhye, Ukraine and the designer of the condom said his contraceptive is fitted with a special sensor that registers when the condom is put on during lovemaking.

In an effort to de-stigmatize condoms, one advocacy group is encouraging people to make their own art pins using the contraceptive. Executive director of The Condom Project, Franck DeRose, says his group started a program that aims to get people more comfortable with condoms, particularly those who live in countries where the items are taboo. He tells Reuters, "There's a great need to de-stigmatize condoms around the world, especially in Africa. "