{"id":2297,"date":"2007-05-08T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T17:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/health_department_finds_sex_declined_sharply_at_close_of_first_quarter.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T17:50:49","slug":"health_departme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/health_departme.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Department Finds Sex Declined Sharply At Close Of First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably not so much that New Yorkers refuse to use them as it is the case that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05082007\/news\/regionalnews\/top_doc_may_pull_condoms_regionalnews_chuck_bennett.htm\">they&#8217;re still sitting unused in everybody&#8217;s wallets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city&#8217;s health commissioner warned yesterday he&#8217;ll dump the condom-giveaway programs if New Yorkers cool to the subway-themed freebies.<\/p>\n<p>Between March 15 and April 15, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene gave away 3.7 million of its transit-themed prophylactics. That&#8217;s a sharp drop from the 5 million given away in the 30 days after the condoms&#8217; Valentine&#8217;s Day debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we find launching this brand didn&#8217;t increase at all safe sex among the groups at highest risk, we may stop it entirely,&#8221; Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably not so much that New Yorkers refuse to use them as it is the case that they&#8217;re still sitting unused in everybody&#8217;s wallets: The city&#8217;s health commissioner warned yesterday he&#8217;ll dump the condom-giveaway programs if New Yorkers cool to the subway-themed freebies. Between March 15 and April 15, the city Department of Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}