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That’s what the government of Brazil will try to find out. The country has opened a <a id="ug9p" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/08/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Condom-Factory.php" title="condom factory">condom factory</a> that hopes to simultaneously fight AIDS, provide work for Brazilian rubber tappers and help preserve the Amazon rain forest, says the Brazilian Health Ministry. The factory <a id="zlfc" href="http://grist.org/news/2008/04/08/AmazonRubber/index.html" title="will">will</a> get its latex by sustainably harvesting rubber from trees in the Chico Mendes forest reserve. Some environmentalists say the effort will provide economic incentives and diminish the need for deforestation. <br id="kml4" />

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The government <a id="x52." href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0721438020080407?sp=true" title="hopes">hopes</a> to distribute 100 million free condoms a year — produced by the factory — as apart of its anti-AIDS program. One of Brazil’s goal with this factory is to reduce dependence on foreign condoms. The country says it is the world’s single largest buyer of condoms.</p>