Women's Power Pak
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1990-1994
name: label: maker
content: American Red Cross
notes: label: Description
content: This Women’s Power Pak was distributed by the American Red Cross around 1990-1994. The red plastic envelope opens up to reveal a clear plastic pouch at the top that contains a business card and two paper inserts. The bottom of the envelope has a clear plastic pouch containing one red condom and one clear condom.
label: Description
content: In the wake of the HIV-AIDS crisis of the 1980s, health organizations routinely distributed condoms. Although condom distribution often targeted men, condom advertising and packaging also targeted women. By the 1990s, almost half of all condoms sold—40%---were sold to women. For women, condoms not only offered protection against s HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, they also provided a form of contraception.
label: Description
content: The package includes two paper inserts: “How to Use a Condom (Rubber)” and “How to Talk to Your Partner About Condoms.” Both inserts emphasized condom use as an essential part of a partnership, with women being encouraged to assist their male partners to put on a condom properly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: Subject
content: HIV-AIDS
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Sex
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0100.104
label: accession number
content: 2005.0100
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0100.104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom kit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 10.3 cm x 6.5 cm; 1/4 in x 4 1/16 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 4 in x 1/8 in; 13.6525 cm x 10.16 cm x .3175 cm