Failing Women, Withholding Protection: 15 lost years in making the female condom accessible
... condoms are not only acceptable, but preferable when compared to male condoms.46 Some of the reasons include: • • • Female condoms offer more flexibility regarding the timing of putting them on and taking them off.47 • Synthetic female ...
The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health
... Condoms. Condoms , like diaphragms and cervical caps , are a barrier method of birth control . A male condom is a sheath worn over a man's erect penis to catch sperm and keep them from entering the woman's vagina . Although usually made ...
Sexually Transmitted Infections - E-book
... condom use , their reported levels of comfort using condoms , and their self - efficacy for condom use . Further , they found significant reductions in reported problems with the " fit and feel ” of condoms , a variable that has been a ...
Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans
... condom distributors had sold 57,610 condoms, averaging eleven condoms sold per distributor per month (Terris-Prestholt et al., 2006). Condom sales varied widely based on the particular distributor's efforts, the characteristics of the ...
Contraceptive Technology
... condom , " pre- sumably after inventor Colonel Cundum.5 With the advent of vulcanized rubber in 1843 came the mass production of condoms made from natural rubber latex.6 In the 1990s , manufacturers also began to use synthetic ma ...
Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality
... Condom. condom Condoms are one of the oldest contraceptive meth- ods (Hatcher et al., 2007). Today most condoms are made of latex, a syn- thetic form of rubber. About 5% of condoms are made from the intestines of lambs; these are known ...
Object Matters
During the mid 1980s the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this book, Nicole Vitellone investigates the consequences of this shift in the objects meaning.
How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom-- and why You Should
This guide for every sexually-active person, heterosexual or homosexual, offers complete information on condoms--including the new female condom--features actual scripts for overcoming a lover's objections to using a condom, and provides, ...
The Humble Little Condom
The story of this humble piece of paraphernalia is full of intriguing insights into human character with all its flaws and foibles as well as many fascinating historical details.
Protective Practices
Through close, evidence-based examination of LRC's first fifty years, encompassing its most challenging decades, the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an overview of later years including the AIDS crisis, Borge argues that the story of the modern ...
Distributing Condoms and Hope
' This book is a necessary read for anyone interested in improving sexual health promotion for and with young people."—Lorena Garcia, author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity "This book, based on ...
Prospects for Increased Condom Use in Marital Unions in Thailand
... condoms for birth control ? Respondent : For birth control , they don't need ( condoms ) . They take pills , get injections , or get sterilized . If they want to have children , they just get children . They don't need condoms ...
Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs
... condoms . 12 Usage / Storage Guidelines Proper use of condoms is essen- tial to their preventing pregnancy . ( See Table 8-3 for usage guidelines . ) Patients using the polyurethane condom should be advised that it is not as elastic ...
100% Condom Use Programme in Entertainment Establishments
The guide outlined that 100% Condom Use Program is multisectoral and should involved a sanction process. It is written for decision-makers and technical staff in the different departments, including Ministries of Health.
Health and disease in relation to marriage and the married state
... condoms in favour of so - called cæcal condoms and must state definitely that I have hardly ever heard of any disturbing or injurious effects in connection with the use of the former , particularly as regards the perfectly finished ...
101 Uses of a Condom
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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
... condoms , Increased condom use has been demonstrated following explicit , fo- cused educational campaigns in the past ( Darrow , 1974 ) . More needs to be done ( Goldstein , 1986 ) . Programs designed to encourage the use of condoms ...
Contraceptive Technology, 1990-1992
... Condoms placed over the erect penis act as barrier methods , prevent- ing sperm from entering the vagina . Some condoms are coated with spermicide . How effectively the spermicide would inactivate sperm should the condom break , however ...