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Never-married women and men age 15-24, and those living in urban areas, are much morelikely to use a condom the first time they had sex than ever-married and rural youths. Similarly, youngwomen and men in Mainland Tanzania are about twice as likely to have used a condom the first timethey had sex as those in Zanzibar. Young women and men in Dar es Salaam and other urban areas aremore likely than those in other areas to use a condom at first sex.There is a strong positive relationship between condom use at first sex and level of educationand household wealth status. Figure 8.2 shows that 58 percent of women with at least secondaryeducation used a condom the first time they had sex, compared with 7 percent of young women withno education.Figure 8.2 Condom Use at First Sexual Intercourseamong Youth 15-24, by Education58464080 Percent Women Men6020152222273170No education Primary incomplete Primary complete Secondary+EducationTHMIS 2007-088.5 PREMARITAL SEXBecause the period between first sexual intercourse and marriage is often a time of sexualexperimentation, youths are often at greater risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections,including HIV/AIDS during this time; they are more likely to have shorter relationships with morepartners before marriage. Table 8.4 shows the percentage of never-married young women and menage 15-24 who have not yet engaged in sex, the percentage who had sex in the 12 months precedingthe survey, and the percentage who used a condom at their most recent sexual intercourse.About six in ten (62 percent) never-married young women in Tanzania reported that they havenever had sex, compared with 53 percent of men. The proportion of unmarried women who havenever had sex drops rapidly from 70 percent for those age 15-19 to 31 percent for those age 20-24.For men in these age groups, the corresponding figures are 66 and 26 percent, respectively).Never-married women age 15-24 are slightly less likely than never-married men of the sameage to say that they had sex in the 12 months preceding the survey (30 percent compared with 33percent). Condom use during premarital sex is high; 49 percent of women and men reported that theyused a condom the last time they had sex.98 | Youth and HIV/AIDS