Word: condom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Netherlands, which had 260 reported cases of AIDS as of April 1, began a government-sponsored "condom campaign" two months ago to encourage the use of prophylactics during sex, and continues to provide free sterilized needles to drug addicts. In Britain, where 750 AIDS cases had been reported by last month, the government last November allocated $32 million to produce a blitz of warnings and advice. Billboards were erected across the country that read AIDS: DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE. Now, however, the London government has begun to question its approach. A recent study has concluded that the campaign needlessly...
...this point, [students] are thinking 'I know what you are supposed to do, but I can't do it'," says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom sales at the UHS pharmacy rose this year, with much of the increase coming in bulk packages of three dozen condoms...
Such prescriptions are likely to be even more controversial than the Surgeon General's insistence that the public be taught about condom use and other safe-sex techniques. Yet such radical proposals are directed precisely to where the danger is now greatest. The alarm over AIDS and its potential spread into the heterosexual population has served to warn the public of its virulence and concentrate government attention on research and prevention. But now it is important to calm the fears of those who are not at great risk and provide help and education to those...
...only known protection against the AIDS virus and other venereal diseases is abstinence or the use of a condom. The AIDS virus can only be transmitted through semen and blood. Because one can never be assured of being free of the smallest lesions in the mouth, anus, or vagina, consistent use of a latex condom is recommended...
...best possible protection a condom should be used correctly during all acts of sexual intimacy to avoid breakage and spillage. A condom should be used before any acts of intimacy occur; this includes oral, anal and vaginal...