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Condoms and other contraceptives

The failure to remove barriers that determine whether a person can access and use a condom is one of the biggest impediments to preventing millions more HIV infections. This advocacy briefing from International Council of AIDS Service Organisations (ICASO) examines some of these barriers and addresses what can be done to overcome them. Information was sourced from a community-led monitoring project in 14 countries undertaken in 2005 and 2006 which collected and analysed data and information on the broad response to HIV and AIDS.

Barriers to access and use of condoms include socio-cultural barriers such as norms of culture, religion and personal belief; legal and policy barriers; economic and financial barriers and structural barriers such as infrastructure and human resources. The report states that to overcome these barriers, governments and donors around the world need to commit new resources and enact and reform legislation, policy and programming that will ensure condom access and availability. It argues that a mobilised community sector that can forcefully advocate for condom access is needed now more than ever.
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