The Condom Ambulance:A Swedish After-School Program

According to a report by Reuters, select cities in Sweden will be gaining a unique after-school program:

A Swedish aid organization will roll out a new line of defense to the country’s emergency services next week — the condom ambulance.
From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics.
“We need to increase the usage of condoms,” said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education, the non-governmental organization behind the initiative. “It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases.”
The ambulances will operate in Stockholm and the southern cities of Malmo and Gothenberg. The service, aimed at young people, will run until June 25 and be available between four in the afternoon and nine at night.
A packet of 10 condoms will cost $6.72, less than they cost on average in the shops.
The incidence of sexually transmitted disease is increasing rapidly in Sweden and not enough young people use condoms, Osvald said.
“We need to change attitudes to condoms,” he said. “If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it.”

Osvald curiously connects the increase in STDs and the lack of condom use among young people as if they were somehow related. Obviously, he could use a lesson in sex education of his own. According to an epidemiology study by the U.S. government, there’s no conclusive evidence that condoms are an effective means of prevention against STDs.
What the evidence does show is that men and women who always use a condom can reduce their risk of being infected with HIV and that men can limit their exposure to gonorrhea. The evidence is inconclusive, however, about whether condoms can prevent genital herpes, syphilis, chancroids, chlamydial infection, trichomoniasis, or gonorrhea (in women). There is also no evidence at all that condoms can prevent the transmission of the human papillomavirus (HPV).
While the Swede