性传播疾病的预防：行为的改变
STD Prevention: Behavior Change

安全性行为-当前的安全性行为指南

连预防AIDS普通指南也是国与国之间略有不同。
虽然各国的预防AIDS普通指南的科学原理相同，可是它们被呈现的方式差异极大。

在一些文化中，性行为的图表公布的统计数据是无可争辩的和有用的，但是在其他的文化中，性行为的统计数据可能恰好相反，这让许多人反感不已。于是，研究者把这些统计数据视同垃圾，只使用自己设法调查的信息。许多国家的卫生官员因此常常设法寻求妥协：公共卫生问题急迫的时候，他们被迫采取紧急措施；但是公众对公共卫生问题反应敏感时，则又会约束卫生官员们的措施不过于激烈。

本教程也欲设法避免冒犯可能想使用本课程的全世界的学生和教师。在本节的课程里，我们因而尽可能依据管理严格和被广泛认可的政府信息资源来展开我们的讨论。

Safer Sex - The Guidelines Today

Even general AIDS prevention guidelines differ somewhat from country to country.
While the scientific facts remain the same, the way they are presented can vary considerably.

In some cultures graphic depictions of sexual behaviors are uncontroversial and helpful, but in other cultures they may be counterproductive.They may scandalize too many people, who then reject them together with the useful message they are trying to convey. Health officials in many countries therefore often try to find some middle ground: The urgency of the problem forces them to be explicit enough to make a difference, but public sensitivities prevent them from becoming too drastic.

The present course also tries to avoid offending the students and teachers around the world who may wish to use it. In the following sections we are therefore relying - as far as possible - on well-established and widely accepted governmental sources.