"The condom promotes promiscuity, and also gives a kind of illusive assurance to those who use condoms, in the sense that 'Oh,I am using condoms.

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(Recording) Munjara says her group does sometimes succeed in educating men about condom use and some do use them.

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You know, if I have a person who comes to me and is being beat, I'm not going to be like, oh, you need to get tested, because that person might be getting beat because she or he wants to use a condom, but their partner doesn't want to and is hitting that person because they want to use condoms.

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"It's not surprising that people can feel it's easier not to use a condom than put themselves through the torture of talking about a subject they feel deeply uncomfortable about, " she said.

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Women taking it are advised to use a monthly contraception injection, or two forms of barrier contraceptives, while men are recommended to use a condom - as thalidomide is present in semen.

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