Condoms

The use of condoms can bring preventive and public health benefits, controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease and avoiding unwanted pregnancy. This book explores these implications from a healthy care worker's point of view. It includes topics such as: Manufacture and Prevention of pregnancy. It is intended for those in public health. The use of condoms can bring major preventive and public health benefits, controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease and avoiding unwanted pregnancy. This book explores these important implications from the healthy care worker's point of view. Written by world renowned experts in sexually transmitted diseases and public healthy, it covers all aspects from manufacture, to the benefits of usage for the individual, and as part of a public health programme. Topics include: Manufacture Prevention of pregnancy Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases Virucides and spermicides Condom use Population surveys Condoms in commercial sex Condoms for anal sex Social marketing Female condom Availability of condom – barriers to access and usage International safety standards The comprehensive coverage of this current and increasingly important area of health care makes Condoms a unique guide for anyone working in STD clinics, and all those in public health, as well as for family doctors. This internationally contributed book will make an important contribution to knowledge about the production and use of condoms worldwide. It discusses their use in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the need for social marketing to persuade populations worldwide of the need for them.