“Double Butterfly” Condom - Futures Group

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Section IV. Where Sex Workers Purchase Their
Condoms
1. How Sex Workers Knew Where to Buy Condoms
Female condom. Around one in four (24.6%) of the sex workers had heard of the
female condom, an of those, 15.7% had ever used one (Tables 7 and 8 ). Very few
sex workers knew where to obtain the female condom. Of those who knew where
to get the female condom, most mentioned that they could get the female condom in
drug stores (Table 9). Tables 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 show the breakdown of the
knowledge and use of the female condom and knowledge of where to buy the female
condom by type of sex work establishment and age.
Table 7: Whether sex workers had ever heard of a female condom, by province
Yunnan Sichuan Total
frequency % frequency % frequency %
Yes 88 21.9 111 27.2 199 24.6
No 315 78.1 297 72.8 612 75.5
Total 403 100.0 408 100.0 812 100.0
Note: p≤0.076( ever heard of a female condom or not * province)
Table 8: Whether sex workers had ever used a female condom, by province
Yunnan Sichuan Total
frequency % frequency % frequency %
Yes 18 21.0 13 11.4 31 15.7
No 59 67.3 96 86.3 155 77.9
no response 10 11.8 3 2.3 13 6.5
Total 88 100.0 111 100.0 199 100.0
Note: p≤0.005( ever used a female condom or not * province
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