Education and Prevention

Availability of Condoms in Quebec Secondary Schools a Priority

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 25th, 1995

The health and welfare policy of the Quebec Health and Social Services Ministry, Canada, stipulates that preventive measures must be strengthened in order to reduce the incidence of HIV and other STDs.

According to the policy, one priority activity for the health and social services network is to make condoms accessible to young people in schools.

In order to assess the effectiveness of measures taken to make condoms accessible in schools, a survey was carried out in May 1994 in 164 Quebec health centers (CLSCs). The CLSC survey showed that of 478 Quebec secondary schools, 192 (40.2 percent) did not make condoms available; 20 schools (4.4 percent)...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1995-12-25)

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