This study examined the factors that influence condom-use among young never-married males in Nigeria. Such information can help improve the design of a prevention programme for young never-married, especially, males to reduce their vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS transmission. Data were derived from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Anal...

With the increased use of condoms, contact dermatitis to rubber is being seen more often. To develop a rubber condom suitable for use by rubber sensitive people, a "hypoallergenic" condom, which is washed in ammonia to reduce the residues of rubber accelerators, has been manufactured. Fifty patients allergic to various rubber accelerators were patch tested with an ordinary condom and the new wa...

OBJECTIVES To explore sex workers' accounts of condom use and their recommendations about how condoms might be improved. METHODS In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 female sex workers in sex work premises in London, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. RESULTS The consistent and effective use of condoms was dependent upon client selection, sex worker control of the condom, communicatio...

Background Approximately 3 million adolescents and young adults (AYA), between the ages of 15 years and 24 years, are living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. The use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) may be a promising HIV prevention tool to bridge the high-risk years of AYA between sexual debut and adulthood. Objectives Concerns have been raised that the use of PrEP could lead to an increase...

OBJECTIVE The main aim of this research was to investigate the students' intention toward condom use and associated factors among students in Debre Work Secondary and Preparatory School, 2015. METHODS A survey was carried out in the high school and the preparatory school. The self-administered semistructured questionnaire was distributed to 422 students. Systematic sampling techniques were em...

HIV infection rates are rapidly increasing among young heterosexuals, making it increasingly important to understand how these individuals make decisions regarding risk in sexual encounters. Our objective in this study was to characterize young adults' safer sex behaviour and associate this behaviour with patterns of reasoning, using cognitive, information processing methods to understand the p...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with sexual activity and inconsistent condom use among high-school girls in Dominica. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at five high-schools in Dominica in 2000 to assess behaviour that may put high-school girls at risk for HIV The main outcome variable, sexual activity, was defined as vaginal or anal sex, and inconsistent condom use defin...

7 Abstract This study examined the effects of contextual and 8 cognitive variables for sexual protection on perceived social 9 relationship factors. University students (108 women and 108 10 men) read script-based narratives on sexual encounters in 11 which six variables were manipulated in two independent anal12 yses. In thefirst analysis, fourvariableswereevaluated: relational 13 context (sta...