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Figure 22. Condom use for casual sex, by age, selected Latin American
and Caribbean countries, 1996-1997
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Figure 23.

Condom use for casual sex in the past six months,
17-30-year-olds, Switzerland, 1987-1997

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Source: University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999
used a condom, while just 18% said they always did. Among those who were married, the men's use of condoms with outside partners was similarly low and that of
the women was even lower - over four out of five married women never used a condom with men who were not their husbands. Most worrying of all were the relatively
low rates of condom use for very high-risk encounters. A study of sex workers in

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