Jayasuriya D C
Institute of Comparative Health Policy and Law, Nawala, Sri Lanka.
AIDS Care. 1991;3(1):3-9. doi: 10.1080/09540129108253042.
The AIDS pandemic has brought into sharp focus the role of condoms in preventing the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. In the vast majority of countries, the condom prevalence rate is very low and to varying extents socio-cultural, infrastructure and logistics, quality control and incorrect usage problems have made it difficult to promote the use of condoms. It is only by developing a national policy on condoms that countries could mobilize within a short span of time all the resources to ensure that condoms are used by those who are at risk of contracting or transmitting HIV. The conditions necessary to develop such a policy and the elements of the policy are described.
艾滋病的流行使避孕套在预防人类免疫缺陷病毒传播方面的作用备受关注。在绝大多数国家，避孕套的使用率非常低，而且在不同程度上，社会文化、基础设施与物流、质量控制以及使用不当等问题都使得推广避孕套的使用变得困难。只有制定一项关于避孕套的国家政策，各国才能在短时间内调动所有资源，确保那些有感染或传播艾滋病毒风险的人使用避孕套。文中描述了制定此类政策所需的条件以及该政策的要素。
