In Colombia Profamilia serves men at its women-oriented family planning clinics as well as in clinics for men only. Male community-based distributors can provide men with condoms and information about family planning. Commercial and social marketing. Commercial sales have long been men's chief source of condoms. To make supplies more affordable and to increase promotion, social marketing programs, which sell contraceptives at subsidized prices through established commercial outlets, operate in more than 20 countries.
Men can buy social-marketing condoms along with other goods.
In many Muslim countries particularly, men do the household shopping. Providing contraceptive choices. In the meantime, family planning programs and the private practitioner should make sure that current methods are readily available. In most developing countries neither condoms nor vasectomies are widely used. Neglect by policy-makers and providers may help explain the low prevalence of vasectomy.