More Choices, Safer Sex: What the Female Condom Can Do

This one-day training will provide current data on female condom efficacy and acceptability, hands-on practice that addresses proper female condom insertion and use-related challenges, and strategies and skills to help participants provide clients with effective condom negotiation skills.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify values and attitudes that impact provider ability to effectively promote the female condom;

• Identify the advantages of female condom use and importance of promotion;

• Address barriers and strategies to female condom use as related to insertion difficulties and problems with use during sex;

• Provide clients with strategies for negotiating female condom use with partners; and;

• Describe ways to integrate the female condom into risk reduction counseling within the context of different client situations.

Prerequisite: None

Audience: All health and human service providers that provide risk reduction counseling.

To register, visit www.hivtrainingny.org.