this message<\/a>: \u201cDue to an overwhelming initial response we have exhausted our inventory far sooner than anticipated. <\/p>\n\u201cWe hope to be back up and running shortly \u2013 stay tuned and we will see you soon!\u201d the department promises.<\/p>\n
A new comedy sketch from the Instagram page \u201cHack NY\u201d pokes fun at the shortage of free condoms that are supposed to be provided by the city\u2019s Department of Health. Instagram\/Hack New York<\/p>\n
The DOH includes a \u201cfree condom\u201d map showing the groups and businesses it claims to have distributed free condoms to.<\/p>\n
But Hack NY said it made random calls to the groups and found that only 33% of the organizations listed on the site had free condoms.<\/p>\n
Hack NY also asked the Health Department when condoms would be back in full supply, and the agency didn\u2019t provide a timeline or answer about the accuracy of its free-condom supply map.<\/p>\n
The video features actors Ayanna Dookie and Aaron Cohen having an unexpected pregnancy because of the condom shortage. Instagram\/Hack New York<\/p>\n
The video urges viewers to call on city officials to fix the free condom shortage. Instagram\/Hack New York<\/p>\n
Matt Wing, a co-founder of Hack NY, said the site decided to pivot to criticizing a city agency \u201cgiven that our vet of this one came up short.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided to pivot to encouraging viewers to call out DOH for the shortage in hopes they will feel motivated to increase supply,\u201d Wing told The Post.<\/p>\n
Anyone who comments on the condom videos posted on Instagram gets a direct message with links to an auto-populated tweet tagging the Health Department.<\/p>\n
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The Health Department and Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 office declined to comment to The Post.<\/p>\n
But the mayor\u2019s preliminary management report released in January said \u201csafer-sex products\u201d including condom distribution, plummeted 21 percent for the first four months of fiscal year 2025 compared to 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is due to delays in registering the purchase order (PO) for the NYC Condom Availability Program\u2019s new safer-sex product vendor,\u201d the report said. \u201cRegular monthly distribution resumed at higher levels at the end of September 2024, when the PO was registered.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Health Department told Hack_NY it\u2019s in the process of securing a new vendor for the purchase and distribution of condoms and other safer-sex products and is limiting orders to 300 condoms and lubricant packets combined per order per month.<\/p>\n
The city unveiled its own \u201cNYC\u201d brand <\/a>of free condoms in 2007 under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg \u2013 in packets with a variety of colors representing the different subway lines.<\/p>\nThe Big Apple first started providing male condoms in the city\u2019s sexually transmitted disease health clinics in 1971 and were distributed in public high schools in 1991.<\/p>\n
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