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Figure 8.3 Condom Use at Premarital Sex amongNever-married Youth, by Education80 Percent Women Men65686050504033373841200No education Primary incomplete Primary complete Secondary+EducationTHMIS 2007-088.6 HIGHER-RISK SEX AND CONDOM USE AMONG YOUTHThe most common way the HIV virus is transmitted is through unprotected sex with aninfected person. To prevent HIV/AIDS transmission, it is, therefore, important to practice safer sex,primarily through the recommended “ABC” method (abstinence, being faithful to one uninfectedpartner, and condom use). Tables 8.5.1 and 8.5.2 and Figure 8.4 show the proportion of young peoplewho engage in higher-risk sex and the percentage who used a condom at last higher-risk sex.Thirty-two percent of women age 15-24 years and 80 percent of men age 15-24 engaged inhigher-risk sexual activity in the 12 months preceding the survey. Men who engage in higher-risk sexare slightly more likely than women to use a condom (49 and 46 percent, respectively).By definition, all unmarried women and men who are sexually active are engaging in higherrisksex (i.e., sexual intercourse with a nonmarital, noncohabiting partner). Thus, the higherproportion of women age 15-19 who engage in higher-risk sex compared with women age 20-24 (49and 22 percent, respectively) is because a larger proportion of women in age group 20-24 are alreadymarried. Involvement in higher-risk sex is more common in urban areas, among better-educatedwomen, and women in the highest wealth quintile.The pattern of condom use follows that of higher-risk sex; higher among urban women,women with higher education, and women in the higher wealth quintile. Men show the same differentialsacross subgroups as women.100 | Youth and HIV/AIDS