While customers in India are captive in their barbers' chairs, they may receive advice on preventing AIDS. The country has trained some 10,000 barbers in sterilizing their instruments and promoting condom use. According to the Associated Press, they have been equipped with condoms and pamphlets on AIDS prevention.

Chinese science company, Guangzhou Haokian Bio, has registered its name for trademarks on contraceptives that will be named as a tribute to former President Bill Clinton and his former-intern Monica Lewinski. The condoms will have the Chinese spellings: Kelitun and Laiwensiji.

Taiwan removes an anti-AIDS campaign advertisement featuring a smiling nun holding a condom, as Roman Catholics vehemently protest. Almost 300,000 Catholics live in Taiwan. The poster depicts the nun holding the condom with both hands saying, "Although I don't need one, even I know. "

India uses condoms as more than a contraceptive. Only a quarter of condoms in India are actually used for protection during sex. The rest are used to in the manufacturing of saris, toys, and bathroom slippers. The condoms are valuable to manufacturers because of the lubricant on them. Sari weavers place the condoms on their thread spools and the lubricant on the prophylactics is rubbed off on the thread, making it move faster through their sewing machines, an Indian industry official explained. Sari makers also turn the condoms inside out, place them on their fingers and use the high-quality lubricant to polish gold and silver threads used in the traditional Indian women's outfits. India manufactures more than 1 billion condoms annually to check population growth and curb the spread of HIV/AIDS