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Condom Nation, a multi-state tour put on by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, will make a stop in Southeast D.C. today. To find the event, follow the big rig with a giant photo of a condom on it.

Free condoms will be distributed at the Benning Stoddert Recreation Center east of the Anacostia River from 3 to 7 p.m. Complimentary rapid HIV testing will also be available.

The tour started in February and has already distributed 600,000 prophylactics, according to a press release.

“Condom Nation is about access to condoms,” Condom Nation director James Vellequette said in a press release. “Our goal is to make condoms easily and readily available for free or at a very minimal cost to those receiving them through our widespread, national, fun and motivated distribution efforts. Simultaneously, we need to eliminate the stigma around having condoms, carrying them, selling them, or best of all, giving them away so that everyone has access to them whenever they need them.”

While Condom Nation may be a fun project, HIV/AIDS is a very serious problem in D.C. A D.C. Department of Health report released in 2012 revealed that 2.7 percent of adults and adolescents (that’s about 14,465 residents) were living with HIV/AIDS, an epidemic level. Thanks to a number of factors, including increased testing, fewer Washingtonians are dying from the diseases.