Condoms

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.

Preface.

A brief history of condoms (Milton Lewis).

Latex condom manufacture (John Gerofi).

International quality standards: unfinished evolution (Philip Kestelman).

Contraceptive efficacy of the male condom (James Trussell).

Condoms for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (Adrian Mindel, Claudia Estcourt).

Spermicides and virucides (DJ Jeffries, RJ Aitken).

Use of condoms: data from popularionj surveys (Anne Grunseit, Anne M Johnson).

Condoms and commercial sex (Juliet Richters, Susan Estcourt).

Condoms for anal sex (Juliet Richters, Susan Kippax).

Social marketing of condoms (Philip Harvey).

Condom availability: barriers to access, barriers to use (William P Schellstede, Madaline P Feinberg).

Design and manufacture of male non-latex condoms for prevention of pregnancy and STIs (Gaston Farr).

The female condom (Anne M Young).

Can we tell them how to do it? (Brenda Spencer, John Gerofi).

Appendix A: International and European condom standards compared.

Appendix B: Condom sampling, Acceptable Quality and Limiting Quality.

Index

Adrian Mindel, Professor in the Academic Unit of Sexual Health Medicine, University of Sydney and New South Wales, Sydney.

Robert Miller, Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Genitourinary Medicine, University College, London.

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.