"University students are no smarter than many other young people when it comes to sexual health."
Lisa Power, Terrence Higgins Trust

Courtesy The BBC
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Many university students in the UK lack basic understanding about condoms, a survey suggests.

A third of those polled thought latex condoms had holes in them large enough to allow HIV to pass through.

And more than one in 10 of the 2,200 who took part in the survey did not know how to put a condom on correctly.

The Terrence Higgins Trust, which carried out the online research, has called for safe-sex education to be made compulsory in schools.

The survey, carried out in conjunction with the National Union of Students (NUS), also found that 16% of students mistakenly believed using two condoms at once was safer than using just one.

And almost a quarter think other forms of contraception protect from sexually transmitted infections. CONTINUED ...