Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was interrupted while addressing Georgetown University graduates by a protester who objected to the Obama administration’s contraception policy.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton joined Rep. Carol Maloney (D-NY) in walking out of a House Oversight Committee hearing this morning on a new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees.

Last spring, Washington became the first American city to organize a campaign to distribute free female condoms in areas of the city where HIV/AIDS infection rates were highest. The good news: the public-private D.C. Female Condom Project campaign — given the catchphrase “DC’s Doin’ It!” — has been fairly successful so far. According to statistics released earlier this week, 25,000 D.C. residents were made aware of the female condom during the program’s first year. That figure includes 13,000 men who were made aware of the contraception’s existence — a rather impressive showing, considering that the D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration had assumed that zero fellas would take an interest in the contraception.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingalatvia/ / CC BY 2.0Washington will be the first American city to distribute free female condoms in areas where HIV/AIDS rates are spiraling out of control, according to a report in this morning’s Washington Post. Wards 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 will see distribution points open in the next three weeks; female condoms will be available “[a]nywhere male condoms are available” in those areas. The FDA-approved female condom, which has an interesting history around…