USA Today (08.03.06) - Friday, August 04, 2006
Sharon Jayson

Forty-seven percent of teenage boys who reported intercourse in the 12 months before the study said they always used a condom, compared to 28 percent of girls. Fifty-five percent of females and 42 percent of males reported sometimes using condoms, while 18 percent of girls and 11 percent of boys said they never used condoms.

"Condom use declines a little with age, and more serious relationships are less likely to use condoms," said report co- author Jennifer Manlove. "At first sexual intercourse, folks are more likely to use condoms for pregnancy and disease prevention, but as they are more sexually experienced, they are more likely to switch to other methods of birth control."

Kerry Frazetta, lead author of the report, said the declining teen birth rate suggests efforts to promote contraceptive use may be paying off. In 2004, there were 41.2 births per 1,000 girls ages 15-19, down from a peak 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991, she noted.

Sarah Brown, who leads the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, said the clear message for sexually active teens is that using two methods of contraception, condoms to prevent STDs and a hormonal method like birth control pills to prevent pregnancy, is best. "Most methods aren't 100 percent effective. If you double up, you're dramatically increasing the effectiveness," Brown said.

The report found variations in contraception use by race and ethnicity. For both sexual debut and their most recent sex, 36 percent of Hispanic females used contraception, compared with 57 percent of blacks and 72 percent of whites.
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