性傳播疾病的預防：行為的改變
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節欲-預防策略——節欲
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儘量地促發人們（尤其青少年）的節制意願和施加外界的壓力，至少短時間裏能夠使他們避免發生性接觸。可是，讓絕大多數的男男女女們每天節制性行為是不現實的。國家和國際的預防項目可能力圖促進節欲，但是也必須明白的是光有節欲是不夠的。確確實實，在許多國家裏，年輕女子和婦女沒有被置於節欲者的地位，因為在她們的社會，她們沒有地位和無能力拒絕其男性性伴的要求。鑒於此，尤其在發展中國家，普遍地提高婦女的社會地位將會更有效地幫助預防性傳播疾病策略的實施。
同時，在性別平等還沒有普遍實現以前，在面對全世界每一個國家裏（人們）持續發生的高危行為時，性傳播疾病的預防項目必須向這個最大的危機宣戰，這就意味著集中精力持續地推行預防性傳播疾病的第二個策略：讓人們的行為模式發生改變，實行“安全性行為”。如果忽視了全球的這個現實需要，將是不負責任的行為。 |
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促進男女的社會、經濟和法律平等的兩個國際機構
上：聯合國。下：經濟合作與發展組織。
Two international organizations promoting the social, economic, and legal equality of women and men.Top: United Nations. Bottom: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Abstinence - Abstinence as Prevention Policy
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Given sufficient personal motivation and outside pressure, some people, especially teenagers, are able to abstain from sexual contact, at least for a while. However, the great majority of females and males prove every day that, for them, abstinence is not a realistic option. National and international prevention programs may very well try to promote abstinence, but they must also know that this is not enough. Indeed, in many countries young girls and women are in no position to be abstinent, since their societies render them powerless to resist the demands of their male partners. For this reason, the general empowerment of women, especially in developing countries, would greatly help prevention efforts.
In the meantime, it would be irresponsible to ignore today’s reality: Until gender equality has become universal, and in the face of continuing risk behavior in every country of the globe, STD prevention programs must fight the greatest present danger, and that means concentrating on the remaining second strategy of behavior change:
“Safer sex”.
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