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Someone can eliminate or reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV during sex by choosing to: Abstain from sex or delay first sex; Be faithful to one partner or have fewer partners; Condomise, which means using male condoms or female condoms consistently and correctly.
There are a number of effective ways to encourage people to adopt safer sexual behaviour, including media campaigns, social marketing, peer education and small group counselling. These activities should be carefully tailored to the needs and circumstances of the people they intend to help.
From here you can access more about female and male condoms, how effective condoms are, the types and sizes that are available, as well as information about other ways to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV, such as, circumcision. Wider issues associated with preventing the sexual transmission of HIV can be explored, this includes: condom negotiation, HIV and sex workers, protection laws and policies, migration and people trafficking.