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Pill by Bike

17/4/2012

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Courier vs Cab Image: Dave Bleasdale
Since Bpas announced a Morning After Pill postal service (in which the pill was posted, the postal service was not run by the Morning After Pill – it just feels that way sometimes)   over the Christmas season the scheme has been awarded the Adult Sexual Health Project of the year at the first UK Sexual Health Awards.

“The judges commended the scheme for its innovative approach to delivery and were impressed by the widespread take-up by women of the service.” 

Over 1000 women used the service over the 4 week pilot and Bpas is now planning on continuing the scheme.


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iSee you: New app grindrs to a halt.

3/4/2012

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Image: Yutaka Tsutano
You probably heard about the i-Free app Girls Around Me app, no doubt in the form of a tweet or Facebook link annotated with the message: ‘YIKES’ or something more blasphemous. If your friends do not keep you so up to date with creepy social network updates then allow me to explain. Girls Around Me was an app that allowed users to locate nearby women who had ‘checked in’ on the social network Foursquare.

Quite what they then did with this knowledge is a grey area. It is reasonably easy – if you are already outside – to work out where the girls are due to what I like to call Nature’s app, eyes. The app not only allowed users to find out the location of women on a map, but any publicly available data and photographs of the women from Facebook. 


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