Condoms

Adrian Mindel, Professor in the Academic Unit of Sexual Health Medicine, University of Sydney and New South Wales, Sydney.Robert Miller, Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Genitourinary Medicine, University College, London.

• Contributors. Preface.A brief history of condoms (Milton Lewis).Latex condom manufacture (John Gerofi).International quality standards: unfinished evolution (Philip Kestelman).Contraceptive efficacy of the male condom (James Trussell).Condoms for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (Adrian Mindel, Claudia Estcourt).Spermicides and virucides (DJ Jeffries, RJ Aitken).Use of condoms: data from popularionj surveys (Anne Grunseit, Anne M Johnson).Condoms and commercial sex (Juliet Richters, Susan Estcourt).Condoms for anal sex (Juliet Richters, Susan Kippax).Social marketing of condoms (Philip Harvey).Condom availability: barriers to access, barriers to use (William P Schellstede, Madaline P Feinberg).Design and manufacture of male non-latex condoms for prevention of pregnancy and STIs (Gaston Farr).The female condom (Anne M Young).Can we tell them how to do it? (Brenda Spencer, John Gerofi).Appendix A: International and European condom standards compared.Appendix B: Condom sampling, Acceptable Quality and Limiting Quality.Index