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John E. Anderson is with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to John E. Anderson, PhD, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Mail Stop E-46, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333 (e-mail: jea1@cdc.gov).
HIV prevention programs seek to increase the use of condoms among persons at risk for acquiring HIV.1 In recent years, the importance of condoms for prevention has remained high as the epidemic has shifted to have more impact on women and persons subject to infection through heterosexual contact.2 Data from surveys indicate increasing condom use among adolescents36 and adults78 since the 1980s.
I present data on condom use from a nationally representative survey of adults living in the United Statesthe General Social Surveyfor 1996, 1998, and 2000, the first national data, available since the mid-1990s, on condom use among adults;
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