Feds Funded Condoms More Than Fighting Female Genital Mutilation

Feds Funded Condoms More Than Fighting Female Genital Mutilation:
"The federal government has spent more money trying to invent the “origami condom” than it has to combat female genital mutilation.
The Government Accountability Office released a report Thursday finding that America’s efforts to combat the harmful practice of gender-based violence around the world is “limited.”
More than 200 million women and girls alive today have suffered from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), or “procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.”
Though the State Department has recognized female genital mutilation as “gender-based violence,” the agency has done little to invest in fighting the practice abroad.
...The State Department’s only stand-alone effort specifically targeting female genital mutilation is in Guinea, and has only received $1.5 million over 2 years.
The amount is less than what Daniel Resnic received from taxpayers for his so-called origami condoms.
...The stated purpose for Resnic’s project was HIV prevention.
He was given $2.4 million from the NIH to create a male and female version of his silicone-based condoms modeled off the Japanese folding paper, and the “first-of-its-kind anal condom.”
However, the condoms never hit the market, as Resnic was accused of wasting funding from the National Institutes of Health on full body plastic surgery, lavish parties at the Playboy mansion, a Cadillac, and vacation homes..."