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Condom Effectiveness?
US Gov: Condom Effectiveness Limited Against Many STDs!
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| Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention. |
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Scientific
Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Prevention. After years of promoting condoms as effective in preventing
the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, a panel of experts headed
by the National Institutes of Health and including the Centers for
Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the US Agency
for International Development admitted, in a report released in July
2001, that there was a lack of scientific evidence that the use of
latex condoms provides significant protection against many common
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including such widespread STDs as
human papilloma virus, chancroid, syphilis, and trichomoniasis.
The
report further found that condoms provides virtually no protection for
women against HPV, an STD which can lead to cervical cancer, which
kills more women in the U.S. than die from AIDS each year.
The
same report found that correct and consistent condom use offers limited
protection against HIV/AIDS (85% risk reduction or 15% failure rate)
and against gonorrhea (50% risk reduction).
Other studies show
that, if used correctly every time, condoms reduce the risk of
infection of Chlamydia (which, along with gonorrhea, can damage
fallopian tubes, causing etcopic pregnancies and infertity) and Genital
Herpes, which is an incurable and lifelong infection, by 50% at best.
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