Hazle initiative with a site in your bag, Control puts 300,000 condoms in the bag of Spanish women.

Notes, snuff, strips, calendars, deodorant, toothpaste, antibiotics, mirrors, socks, fruit or stuffed animals are some of the most curious objects that girls have exchanged for condoms.

A positive pregnancy test from a girl of 18 years has undoubtedly been the most striking object

With this initiative, aimed solely at women and supported by the Ministry of Health and Consumption Control has distributed 300,000 condoms for three days in 10 Spanish cities.

Control, a leading brand of condoms in the pharmaceutical sector, has managed to convince women with Hazle initiative a place on your bag, with which aimed to promote condoms among youth to combat unwanted pregnancies. This campaign, supported by the Ministry of Health and Consumption, which was directed solely to women as prescribing and use as the primary victims of the consequences that entails no use of condoms during sexual intercourse.

For three days Control has distributed 300,000 condoms in 10 Spanish cities and has collected thousands of items considered unnecessary for girls in her purse, exchange and deposition in a glass case. This exchange was a symbol reminding them to always have to make time to condoms, because in them is their health

José Manuel López Back, Director of Marketing Control discusses the teenagers should be made aware of the danger posed to them by unsafe sex. Moreover, parents also should help in the fight for unwanted pregnancies and should not be surprising that their daughters carry condoms in your bag

Notes, snuff, strips, calendars, deodorant, toothpaste, antibiotics, mirrors, socks, fruit or stuffed animals are some of the most curious objects that girls have exchanged for condoms. However, the most striking object was the exchange that made a girl of 18 who deposited a pregnancy test with positive result.

Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Valencia, Zaragoza, Malaga, Murcia, Cordoba and Alicante were the cities selected to carry out this campaign, aimed at women for several reasons: it has an increasingly greater role in sexual intercourse because it is more reflective and analytical than men and also the most important reason and because it is she who suffers the direct consequences of not using condoms (unwanted pregnancy, single motherhood, abortions, infections, etc.).

At the end of the campaign, José Manuel López Vuelta We concluded it was a success. We are very satisfied with the results obtained, the women thanked the launch of an initiative directed exclusively to them, when they are most affected by unwanted pregnancies


Useful information

According to data recently by the Ministry of Health and Consumption, Spanish young people maintain their first intercourse at age 16, the girls still outperform boys in early. Moreover, according to a report by Control, 19% of young people between 20 and 30 years never use condoms with casual partners, the youngest band this data is even higher. Some alarming data taking into account the cases of unwanted pregnancies registered in Spain. In 10 years it has doubled the rate of teenage pregnancy (10 to 17 years) from 3.07 per thousand in 1997 to 6.3 per thousand in 2007.

Spain Youth Report 2008 (INJUVE), which analyzes the evolution of sexual behavior of young people in Spain, shows that the percentage of unwanted pregnancies has increased from 9.9% in 2004 to 12.1% in 2008. The average age at which this occurred was 19.6 years in 2004 and 22.5 years in 2008. Almost half (49.5%) of these pregnancies ended in abortion.

According to the Office of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), the rate of abortion (interruptions per 1,000 registered) in women aged 15 to 44 years in 2007 was 11.49%. This represents an increase of 91.5% in just 10 years.

Although rates have risen IVE in all age groups in the last decade, in 2007 38.8% of women who had an EVI were under 25 years. Additionally, this same year, 32.4% of women who terminated her pregnancy voluntarily had done one or more times previously.


About Control:
Control, a leading brand of condoms in the pharmacy channel already has over 30 years experience and is present in over 20 countries. The presence of control is stronger in Mediterranean countries, with Spain, Portugal, Italy and Turkey among the countries with more weight but with a presence in other countries such as Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

Factory Control that caters to all countries is installed in Madrid and employs highly qualified specialists in the production and development of such products.

The condom is a contraceptive method cheap, convenient, reliable and secure, as far as protection of sexually transmitted diseases, as endorse the 6 million Spanish consumers.