- Authors
- Drezin, Jenny, Mary Ann Torres and Kieran Daly
- Title
- Barriers to Condom Access: Setting an Advocacy Agenda
- In
- ICASO Advocacy Briefing
- Imprint
- ICASO - International Council of AIDS Service Organizations, Toronto, 2007, 24 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations.
- Abstract
"It is the right of people living with HIV and those most at risk and vulnerable to HIV infection to access comprehensive services and commodities. This includes proven prevention approaches such as the promotion and use of condoms. However, the failure to remove barriers that determines whether a person can access and use a condom is one of the biggest impediments to preventing millions more HIV infections.
‘Frontline’ community research supported by ICASO in fourteen countries has provided analysis of some of these barriers to condom access. In particular, it is clear that 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. A mobilized community sector that can forcefully advocate for condom access is needed now more than ever."