Nigeria: What Gives Nigerian Students the Confidence to Use Condoms

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Condom use is the focus of various sexual health promotions among adolescents and young adults in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries. Yet a significant proportion of young people still engage in unprotected sex. They are therefore at risk of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. The rate of all these outcomes is high in sub-Saharan Africa.

And despite the promotion of condoms, there is not much research on what influences young people's confidence to purchase or use condoms. Not much is known about the role of social and demographic factors, as well as behavioural and parental factors, in this decision.

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