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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 5(4)

Pending research issues in male condom use promotion

Richard Crosby A B D and Lee Warner C
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A College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, 121 Washington Avenue, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.

B Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, Indiana University, 801 East 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

C Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.

D Corresponding author. Email: crosby@uky.edu

Sexual Health 5(4) 317-319 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH08080
Submitted: 28 October 2008  Accepted: 30 October 2008   Published: 18 November 2008

Abstract

Sufficient evidence has accumulated to warrant the expansion of condom use research in several additional directions. Possible risk compensation pertaining to human papillomavirus vaccination and vaginal microbicides is one example. A second area of needed research involves the question of when couples can be advised to safely discontinue condom use given that ‘lifelong’ condom use is not a realistic goal for most people. A third example is intensified research designed to identify more effective means of mass marketing condoms and their use as a health-protective behaviour. As the AIDS and sexually transmissible infection pandemics persist, intensified condom promotion research is an ethical imperative.

Additional keywords: condom effectiveness, condom failure, sexual behaviour, sexually transmissible infections.


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