Description
Book SynopsisThe use of condoms can bring preventive and public health benefits, controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease and avoiding unwanted pregnancy. This book explores these implications from a healthy care worker's point of view. It includes topics such as: Manufacture and Prevention of pregnancy. It is intended for those in public health.
Table of ContentsContributors.
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
