[netmilsmom]

It stops the spread of AIDS in 95% of cases....
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The University Of Zambia
School of Medicine



University of Zambia Medical Library

Female Condom and AIDS (UNAIDS Best Practice Collection Point of View: April 1997)
Facts and Figures:


* Cheap and reliable, the traditional condom (or male condom) is used by millions all over the world to avoid pregnancies. Until recently, it has also been the only barrier method for preventing the passing of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, between two sex partners. Used correctly every time people have sex, it is over 95% effective against the transmission of HIV.

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Funny thing though, abstinence stops the spread 100% of the time.

[areafiftyone]

Funny thing though, abstinence stops the spread 100% of the time.

Well of course I totally agree with that. But its sooo hard to find people who are willing to be abstinent.

[TradicalRC]

Used correctly every time people have sex, it is over 95% effective against the transmission of HIV.

Aye, there's the rub...

[eastsider]

Cheap and reliable, the traditional condom (or male condom) is used by millions all over the world to avoid pregnancies. Until recently, it has also been the only barrier method for preventing the passing of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, between two sex partners. Used correctly every time people have sex, it is over 95% effective against the transmission of HIV.

According to the NIH Summary Report published in 2000, condoms are only 85% effective against HIV transmission. Brent Bozell wrote an article in 2003 ("AIDS Education...Or Condom Promotion?," in which he cites an even more frightening rate of failure in preventing STD transmission:

In July 2001, a study for the National Institutes of Health found that while use of condoms was about 85 percent effective at preventing transmission of HIV, that’s a failure rate of 15 percent. Human papilloma virus, or HPV, is the cause of more than 90 percent of all cases of cervical cancer, which kills more American women each year than AIDS. The NIH analysis found no evidence that condoms prevent HPV transmissions.