Local organizations have complained about emails going unanswered and condom orders being delayed for weeks or even months.
“Can you let them know that we are out of condoms,” wrote Davila, who works for Community Health Project LA, which provides condoms and other health supplies on the streets. The group had turned to a county program that provides free condoms to be handed out by businesses and community groups, but its emails were going unanswered.because I can’t even get a reply,” Davila wrote in an email.
The county agreement with Audacy, formerly known as Entercom, was due to end last summer. Instead, the public health department opted last June to extend it for another year. But when their supplies ran out this winter, “we paid $700 for condoms out of our pocket,” Davila said, “which is really unfortunate because that money should go towards other things for our participants.”
Around that same time, another public health employee raised concerns that a group serving sex workers had repeatedly applied for the condom program but had not heard back; it turned out they had initially been denied because of a misunderstanding. A public health employee suggested that perhaps groups could be emailed if they were rejected.
“These organizations are serving an incredibly high risk population,” the employee wrote in an email. “We should be doing everything in our power” to keep them stocked with condoms.
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