CONTENTS
- The Condom Gap: A Health Crisis
- Sexual Behavior and Condoms
- Knowledge of Condoms and AIDS
- How Effective Are Condoms?
- New Condoms for the New Millennium
- Improving Access
- Promoting Condoms
- Policies for Condom Use
HIGHLIGHTS
- HIV/AIDS still spreading fast
- Changing the image of condoms
- Behavior change to avoid AIDS
- Ensuring condom quality
- Protecting young people
- Is the female condom promising?
- Sales marketing sales grow
- Condoms: a good investment
April, 1999
Series H, Number 9
This report was prepared by Robert Gardner, Ph.D., Richard D. Blackburn, M.S., and Ushma D. Upadhyay, M.P.H. Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor. Research assistance by Athena Tapales and Vera Zlidar. Design by Linda Sadler. Production by John Fiege, Merridy Gottlieb, Peter Hammerer, and Deborah Maenner.
The assistance of the following reviewers is appreciated: Ward Cates, John Crowley, Megan Drennan, Paul Feldblum, Ron G. Frezieres, Patrick Friel, John Gerofi, Phillip D. Harvey, Alan G. Johnston, Mary Ann Leeper, Gary Lewis, Dominique Meekers, Steven D. Pinkerton, Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Malcolm Potts, Pramilla Senanayake, J. Joseph Speidel, and Margaret Usher.
Suggested citation: Gardner, R., Blackburn, R.D., and Upadhyay, U.D. Closing the Condom Gap. Population Reports, Series H, No. 9. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Population Information Program, April 1999.
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