Condom Workshop Presentations

Sexuality and condoms

• Can safer sex be good Sex? Mixing pleasure and prevention (Anne Philpott)
  Argues that a focus on sexual pleasure is integral to successful safer sex communication and offers examples of programmes that achieve this.
  
  
• Condoms, sex and sexuality (Juliet Richters)
  This presentation concludes that we can only tackle some of the problems people experience in using condoms by re-linking condoms with sex and sexuality.

Condoms and young people

• The Mpondombili Project: preventing HIV and pregnancy among rural South African school-going adolescents (Abigail Harrison)
  Outlines evidence from a South African research project that studied young people's attitudes towards and use of condoms.
  
  
• Young People We Care (YPWC), Zimbabwe : with adequate support, young people can make good choices about sex (Lovemore Magwere)
  Describes a project which links HIV prevention and HIV/AIDS care, and which shows that young people can make informed decisions about sex and reduce unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates.
  
  
• Argentina : promoting the use of condoms among young people (Maria Eugenia Miranda)
  Outlines campaigns organised and planned by the National Network of Adolescents to raise awareness of male and female condoms.

Positive prevention

• Prevention strategies for people living with HIV/AIDS (known as positive prevention): some basics, comments and the experience in Ecuador (Javier Hourcade Bellocq)
  Overview of positive prevention strategies and an example from the Frontiers Prevention Programme in Ecuador.

Key populations

• Condom promotion for sex workers (Melissa Ditmore)
  Outlines some of the barriers to condom use by sex workers, including US policy and condom shortages.
  
  
• 100% Condom Use Programme for sex workers in Asia (Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn)
  This presentation describes the 100% Condom Use Programme (100% CUP) pioneered in Thailand and its effects on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
  
  
• Condoms and sex workers: Aviele, Oluku and Ugbague communities in Edo State, Nigeria (Christabel Ene Unobe)
  An overview of three interventions with sex workers in communities in Nigeria which focused on awareness raising and capacity building.
  
  
• Promoting condoms to men who have sex with men in Brazil (Craig Darden)
  Outlines how social marketing of a brand of condom to men who have sex with men in Brazil was developed with the collaboration of the target market.
  
  
• Promoting condom usage at the grass roots: Badagry, a border town experience (Femi Aina Fasinu)
  This presentation outlines some of the strategies utilised for condom promotion in a Nigerian border town where tourism and migration were linked with unsafe sex.
  
  
• Condom and safe sex promotion for drug users' communities (Catalina Iliuta)
  Explores the role of condoms and comprehensive information on sexual transmission in interventions for drug users.

Dual protection, condoms and family planning services

• Dual protection: more needed than practised or understood (Marge Berer)
  This presentation explores the concepts of dual protection through an analysis of available research literature.
  
  
• Trends in protective behaviour among young African women (John Cleland and Mohamed Ali)
  Analyses data available from Department of Health surveys from Africa to track sexual activity and condom use in women.
  
  
• Condoms in Paraguay : some strategies for their better promotion (Ariel Gonzalez Galeano)
  Provides an overview of how young people currently access condoms in Paraguay , explains some barriers to condom use and makes suggestions for future condom promotion.

Scaling up condom promotion and social marketing

• 100% Condom Use Programme combined with STI services for female sex workers in Cambodia (Dr Vichea Ouk and Dr Françios Crabbé)
  This presentation describes the successes and challenges of Cambodia's adoption of the 100% CUP programme.
  
  
• Social marketing and scaling up condom promotion (Shyama Prassana Bose)
  Describes a successful condom social marketing scheme in Ethiopia.

Condom promotion at programme and community level

• Empathy - the missing ingredient (Sunanda Ray)
  This presentation explores the World Health Organization (WHO) consultation on the re-use of female condoms making the point that policy strategies that are formulated without empathy are seldom effective.
  
  
• AB?DE (Svenn Grant)
  Outlines the work of the YMCA and others during carnival to market condoms to young people using popular culture.
  
  
• Condoms and sexual and reproductive health programmes: good bed partners? (Doortje Braeken)
  Looks at the ways in which International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has approached condom programming with young people, highlighting the importance of youth involvement.

Enabling policies and anti-condom policies

• Enabling condom use (Sandra MacDonagh)
  This presentation outlines the strategy of the UK Department for International Development (DfID) to make condoms more available in developing countries.
  
  
• Engaging with PEPFAR - abstinence, fidelity and young people (Gill Gordon)
  Addresses whether it is possible to use PEPFAR ABY funds well for HIV prevention with young people and how to limit any negative impacts of this funding.
  
  
• US policy, ideology and the HIV epidemic: undermining effective prevention strategies (Jodi Jacobson)
  This presentation analyses the PEPFAR policy and the way in which it is implemented in practice.