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June 2003, Vol 93, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 912-914
© 2003 American Public Health Association

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Condom Use and HIV Risk Among US Adults

John E. Anderson, PhD

John E. Anderson is with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to John E. Anderson, PhD, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Mail Stop E-46, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333 (e-mail: jea1@cdc.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
HIV prevention programs seek to increase the use of condoms among persons at risk for acquiring HIV.1 In recent years, the importance of condoms for prevention has remained high as the epidemic has shifted to have more impact on women and persons subject to infection through heterosexual contact.2 Data from surveys indicate increasing condom use among adolescents3–6 and adults7–8 since the 1980s.

I present data on condom use from a nationally representative survey of adults living in the United States—the General Social Survey—for 1996, 1998, and 2000, the first national data, available since the mid-1990s, on condom use among adults; . . . [Full Text]


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