Sentences with phrase «condom use declined»

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The same association with HIV decline can not be said for condom use, coverage of HIV testing, treatment for curable sexually transmitted infections, provision of antiretroviral drugs, or any other intervention or behavior....

At a time of declining condom use among gay men in the United States, with a consequent uptick in new HIV transmissions, the performance served as a sobering reminder that AIDS, while no longer a death sentence in the U.S., is still among us.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute released last week, U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity, found that pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all teens over the past two decades, and that these declines have been primarily driven by improved use of contraception, particularly increases in the use of highly effective methods and dual use of contraception and condoms.