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Zimbabwean Women Are Condom-Shy, They Prefer ‘Live’ Intercourse: Expert
By Correspondent
ZIMBABWEAN women do not use condoms, according to the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) acting director for technical services, Dr Simbarashe Mabaya
He said the uptake of the female condom remained low with figures showing that less than one percent of women in the country use the female condom.
“Women in Zimbabwe are familiar to the presence of the female condom. However, knowledge of the female condom is not translated into its use since the majority of the women do not use it. Less than one percent of women in Zimbabwe use the female condom,” said Dr Mabaya.
He said the low uptake could be evidenced by low consumption trends over the years.
Dr Mabaya attributed patriarchy and myths for the low uptake of the female condom.
“Women are not empowered to negotiate for safer sex particularly the use of the female condom. Males have a say over sex issues and therefore prefer the use of the male condom. Women cannot initiate the use of a condom let alone being found in possession of a female condom since it may be misconstrued as having extra-marital relationships,” said Dr Mabaya.
“Lack of confidence in using it coupled with belief that it needs special training for one to be able to use it and myths associated with the use of a female condom such as causing irritations and noise during sex can also be the result of its low uptake.”
Dr Mabaya said last year 3 388 027 female condoms were distributed countrywide.
“A total of 806 832 female condoms have been distributed through our service delivery system in the first quarter of this year which is not necessarily consumption.
“ZNFPC will have to improve its condom programming and ensure that social marketing and operations research informs the programming,” said Dr Mabaya.
Posted by
G
June 7, 2013 at 3:46 pm
I think everywhere women rarely use their condoms.
ONETIME RELOADED
June 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm
this is very funny!!!!
ONETIME RELOADED
June 7, 2013 at 4:14 pm
now this is the place to be
honest woman
June 7, 2013 at 5:11 pm
You shun condom, you die and also infect others, wake up Zimbabweans!
casim
June 7, 2013 at 5:36 pm
with zimbabwe jus from the president things are not ok with them. maybe in zimbabwe the condoms they use are rough so they find it hard to enjoy sex, you know zimzim is one of the hopeless countries in southern africa becoz of mugabe.
hopeless gal
June 8, 2013 at 8:50 am
women are naturally careless wen it cms to protection.thats y there are more hiv+ f than m at any age group.they worry more abt preg n not hiv
zimbabwe hule
June 8, 2013 at 4:11 pm
expert wafinshi…!