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http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_283134904.html

U.S. Man's Porn Sales Helping Fight AIDS Overseas
(AP) HANOI, Vietnam In the lobby of what Vietnamese delicately call a “rest house,” Phil Harvey sits listening intently as the manager details how many condoms he passes out each month and how much a room costs by the hour or night.

This “nha nghi,” on a narrow road across the Red River in the communist capital, is one of about 300 establishments that rent rooms for sex.

Harvey, 67, isn’t the least bit squeamish around such talk. He runs Adam & Eve, one of America’s biggest X-rated mail-order businesses, selling everything from movies to sex toys. He’s also a survivor of U.S. government court battles aimed at shutting him down.

But in Vietnam and 10 other developing countries, Harvey donates a chunk of his millions for contraceptives that sell for pennies to the poor.

“I don’t find this odd at all, but a lot of people do,” he told The Associated Press. “I mean, what else would I do with the money? This is my life’s work. I can’t think of any more enjoyable way to make use of those profits.”

Harvey is president of Washington-based DKT International, a nonprofit organization which he says gets about $2 million of his annual earnings from Adam & Eve’s $70 million in sales.

For 15 years DKT has been distributing heavily discounted condoms, birth control pills and other contraceptives to people in developing countries. It’s called social marketing—advertising and selling, rather than just giving away, the tools of family planning and disease prevention. Most contraceptives are sold at a loss, although programs in a couple countries have broken even.

It was his plan from the very beginning, Harvey says, and Adam & Eve just happened to be the means to make it possible.

After five years in India working for an aid agency in the 1960s, he decided to focus on ways of controlling population growth. He earned a master’s degree in family planning administration at the University of North Carolina, and with Tim Black, another public health proponent, started a mail-order catalog selling condoms to Americans—a business that was illegal at the time.

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