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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Condoms and the effect on AIDS transmission rates
- Message-ID: <28264@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:39:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.184026.25744@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.230501.4100@spdcc.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1992Nov16.230501.4100@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
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- >It's important to understand that while condoms have a failure rate, and
- >this rate is reflected in rates of pregnancies and HIV infection ...
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- It's also important to understand that part of the published failure
- rates of condoms is failures due to not using one, i.e., you were part
- of a condom test trial, but you ran out, meant to use one but got
- carried away, a "friend" tied a knot in it as a prank, etc.. What we'd
- all really like to know is the failure rate of properly used condoms;
- but most studies find that too difficult to establish.
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