Do you have a condom?

Use a condom, don't get AIDS.

Uncle buys a condom. Very good, uncle. Move ahead.

Mechai Viravaidya How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place

Uncle gets drunk, doesn't use condom. Come back, start again.

I don't know why. I did not ask for a condom.

In the area of condoms, efforts will concentrate on (a) intensifying condom programming at the country level, particularly dual protection for sexually active young people and (b) scaling up female condom programming.

Some of you might have heard about the New York City condom.

We had relay races with condoms, we had children's condom blowing championship.

And before long, the condom was know as the girl's best friend.

What is it that you think about just before you get a condom?

UNFPA is the UNAIDS convening agency on young people and on condom programming.

So essentially, you're able to achieve quite high rates of condom use in commercial sex.

And if anybody asks why you're carrying a condom, you can just say you like the design.

In Thailand, for poor people, diamonds don't make it so the condom is the girl's best friend.

And then we have this Captain Condom, with his Harvard MBA, going to schools and night spots.

Community awareness campaigns, the promotion of condom use and the distribution of educational materials were also expanded.

You should always use a condom, and yet, in her relationship, she's not empowered what's going to happen?

How do you have safer sex, how do you use a condom regularly if there hasn't been disclosure?

Now these are not the kinds of things that someone is thinking about just before they go get a condom.

And then, new change, we had hair bands, clothing and the condom for your mobile phone during the rainy season.

For unmarried girls traditional norms of virginity are prevalent, meaning they cannot carry a condom because of the connotation they are easy to get .

We found you know somebody here was searching for the weapon of mass destruction, but we have found the weapon of mass protection the condom.

The focus of UNFPA work in HIV AIDS remains (a) the prevention of HIV infection among young people (b) women and AIDS and (c) comprehensive condom programming.

Heeding the call to promote female controlled HIV prevention methods, UNFPA and its partners launched a multi year, multi country initiative to scale up female condom programming.

Over a quarter of a million were taught about family planning with a new alphabet A, B for birth, C for condom, I for IUD, V for vasectomy.

Well, it is more common with multiple partners, there is less condom use, and there is age disparate sex that is, older men tend to have sex with younger women.

Only 16 of them use one of the modern methods of contraception (condom 3 , IUD 7 , pill 5 ), while 33 of them use some of the traditional methods (interrupted intercourse).

And what we've seen is that, actually, condom use rates, which were very, very high the gay community responded very rapidly to HIV, with extremely little help from public health nerds, I would say that condom use rate has come down dramatically since treatment for two reasons really One is the assumption of, Oh well, if he's infected, he's probably on meds, and his viral load's going to be low, so I'm pretty safe.

But about three months after the launch of the condom company, I had a letter, a complaint, and I sat down and wrote a long letter back to this lady apologizing profusely.

A national campaign has been set up especially aimed at young people, called I play safe or I don't play at all', in which using a condom is presented as the norm.

And that's boring, but is it as boring as having to use a condom every time you have sex, no matter how drunk you are, no matter how many poppers you've taken, whatever?

Surveys in South Africa showed that sex workers working at truck stops faced violent reactions, loss of clients or as much as a 25 per cent cut in income for insisting on condom use.

In most of the world, these few prevention failures notwithstanding, we are actually doing quite well these days in commercial sex condom use rates are between 80 and 100 percent in commercial sex in most countries.

These are primary school kids third, fourth grade going to every household in the village, every household in the whole of Thailand, giving AIDS information and a condom to every household, given by these young kids.

It includes reducing the cost and expanding the distribution of the female condom conducting a media campaign directed at the clients and working with civil society groups to empower women in the sex sector to better their socio economic situation.

At TEDxChange, Thailand's Mr. Condom, Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny and very effective talk about condoms.

The Government of Brazil runs one of the most successful HIV AIDS programmes in the world, including free STD and HIV testing, free male and female condom distribution, as well as preventive services for women in the sex industry and intravenous drug users.

The percentage of condom use in most recent sexual relations within the general population shows rapid growth and in fact looks set to rise soon to 100 per cent, thanks to the policy of the Family Welfare Association (APROFAM) to ensure widespread availability of contraceptives.

But in intimate relations it's much more difficult because, with your wife or your boyfriend or someone that you hope might turn into one of those things, we have this illusion of romance and trust and intimacy, and nothing is quite so unromantic as the, My condom or yours, darling? question.

The activities of the Control Centre for Special Infections which aim at women as a target group, are both informative, concerning prevention and combating AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases by means of healthy sexual behaviour and use of women's condom, as well as supportive to Units of Special Infections in Hospitals.

The greatest successes in prevention involve what has been called combination prevention, involving simultaneous and substantial scaling up of multiple interventions, including condom distribution, treatment of sexually transmitted disease, male circumcision, and peer interventions among sex workers. Preventing two million HIV infections each year would be relatively expensive, at 2.5 billion, but would yield benefits twelve times higher.

Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.

The taboo against incest runs deep, as the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt demonstrated when he told experimental subjects about Julie and Mark, adult siblings who take a holiday together and decide to have sex, just to see what it would be like. In the story, Julie is already on the Pill, but Mark uses a condom, just to be safe.