AIDS prevention in late adolescent college students from Spain and Portugal

These findings suggest that the different realities for each country or context must be considered in the design of AIDS prevention programmes aimed at late adolescents. Whereas in both countries prevention programmes should encourage the ability to negotiate condom use, Portuguese programmes must underline the benefits of condom use, and Spanish programmes should aim to analyse the importance of barriers to condom use for the students to reduce these and to replace costs with benefits.