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Evidence on risk compensation associated with HIV prevention interventions is mixed.

Harvard researcher Edward C. Green argued that the risk compensation phenomenon could explain the failure of condom distribution programs to reverse HIV prevalence, providing a detailed explanations of his views in an op-ed article for The Washington Post and an extended interview with the BBC.

A 2007 article in the Lancet suggested that " condoms seem to foster disinhibition, in which people engage in risky sex either with condoms or with the intention of using condoms ".

Another report compared risk behaviour of men based on whether they were circumcised.