[Youth and reproduction: demograhic, behavioral and reproductive profiles in the PNDS-2006].

Objective: Analyze the sociodemographic characteristics and the sexual and reproductive behavior of young women.

Methods: A cross-sectional nationally representative study was performed about sexual, contraceptive and reproductive behavior with 2,991 women age 15 to 20 years in the National Survey on Demography and Health of Women and Children, 2006. The women were classified into three groups: sexual initiation and pregnancy before the age of 20 (group A); sexual initiation but no pregnancy before the age of 20 (group B) and no sexual initiation (group C).

[Trends in condom use: Brazil 1998 and 2005].

Objective: To analyze the levels, tendencies and sociodemographic differentials of condom use among the Brazilian urban population.

Methods: The data analyzed was collected in 1998 and 2005, in the study, "Sexual Behavior and Perceptions of the Brazilian Population concerning HIV/Aids". The probabilistic samples, in multiple stages, included men and women aged 16 to 65 years old, living in urban areas.

Notes on the female condom: experiences in Brazil.

A nationwide effort to introduce the female condom (FC) into public health services was undertaken in Brazil in 1998-99. To this end, the Ministry of Health sponsored a national research group of public health professionals, aided by local field workers and supervisors, to conduct a preparatory study at 20 sites in six cities. Clinic health workers were trained to conduct the study.