[Vision2020] Moscow's HIV alert - condom failure rate

[John D]

Do you care to cite a source for your numbers? The World Health Organization claims condoms have a protection rate of more than 99% per year against the transmission of HIV, when one partner is certainly positive:
  
  http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs243/en/
  
  "Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor" <editor at lataheagle.com> wrote:
  
  > Condoms have failure rate of 2 - 3% when used correctly. That number jumps
  > to about 17% when used incorrectly.
  > Alcohol affects fine motor skills, so what do you think the odds are that a
  > condom will be used incorrectly by a drunk, Mr. Hansen?
  > So.....if condoms are 97-98% effective and abstinence is 100% effective at
  > preventing the sexual spread of a disease that KILLS, which would a
  > RESPONSIBLE person choose?
  > Gee, I dunno, thats a tough one.
  > I'm a realist, Mr. Hansen, I know that kids are going to have sex. But
  > shouldn't abstinence be stressed as the primary way to avoid STDs and HIV,
  > with the "safe sex" strategy #2, since "safe sex" is not 100 % effective? 
  

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