Aside from the mechanics, the products are hard to find and cost more than male condoms.
The newest version of female condoms called FC2 is cheaper and uses a non-latex material.
"It's the same deal with female condoms - it's not complicated at all, " she said.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved female condoms in 1993, they haven't exactly been embraced.
But Davis says despite the country's Catholic culture, condoms are not religiously taboo in Haiti.
The non-oxynol nine gel, was based on one already used in condoms as a spermicide.
On one end of the spectrum we have condoms, and on the other is the vasectomy.
They've had to find the confidence themselves to talk about condoms and learn the hard way.
BBC: Condoms: Why are we still embarrassed about using them?
The government of the state of Perak said it would distribute condoms only to married men.
As he points out, the city handed out condoms long before the practice was mainstream.
Condoms are widely sold in the Philippines, but at a price that many people cannot afford.
That doesn't mean that it is a replacement for condoms or other methods of HIV prevention.
The condoms are another tool to empower and protect women from sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy, health advocates say.
Nonoxynol-9 is also still used in some brands of condoms, also as a spermatocide.
If you are sexually active, use condoms consistently and correctly to protect yourself and your partners.
The other half were merely shown a video tape and given a supply of condoms.
"Studies find that kids in abstinence-only programs have negative, biased views about whether condoms work, " she says.
But the government denies that it has abandoned condoms or changed what it calls a balanced policy.
Katherine, 17, from Essex, says teenagers do talk about condoms, but nearly always in a joking way.
BBC: Condoms: Why are we still embarrassed about using them?
They were also given condoms and advice about sexually transmitted diseases, and tested for HIV once a month.
The World Health Organisation points out that condoms, used properly, cut the chance of HIV infection by 90%.
Instead of donating condoms designed for Americans, the company is creating new packaging based on the developing country's culture.
As we've seen in the United States, providing free condoms -- especially to youth -- can be controversial.
In using the debonair, sophisticated man as the hero, the ad demonstrates that even smooth, desirable men use condoms.
So far, Sir Richard's has donated more than 1.6 million condoms to Haiti.
Condoms and sponges, for example, are not deductible since they are available not by prescription but over the counter.
This has led many to question why the government is storing 30m condoms that it used to distribute free.
The majority of couples in Zambia still don't use modern methods such as condoms, the pill, implants and injections.
Nowhere is this more shocking than in the church's attitude towards the use of condoms in the developing world.
In Senegal, for example, the annual number of condoms used rose from 800, 000 in 1988 to 9m in 1997.
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