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Condoms - Where and how to get them

You can buy male condoms at many stores and supermarkets. Female condoms and male condoms are also available at drug stores without a prescription. These are usually in boxes with more than one in the box.

You can also purchase individual male condoms from vending machines in many restaurants or bars.

Some STI/STD clinics and public health centres may offer male condoms free. Look in the telephone book under "health", "sexual health"or "sexually transmitted infection/disease".

Store male condoms away from sunlight in a cool, dry place. Female condoms need no special storage.

Always use a new condom each time you have sex.

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• Where to go for help

Condoms

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • How to use a condom
  • Condom chat
  • Condoms, Sexually transmitted infections, Safer Sex and You
  
  
• Health Canada
  • It's Your Health, Condoms
  
  
• Canadian Health Network 
• Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre 
• BC Centre for Disease Control STD/AIDS Division 
• Santé et services sociaux Québec, Gouvernement du Québec 
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
• American Social Health Association 

[Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control]