Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom

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Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, also known as the ABC strategy or abstinence plus sex education, is a sex education policy based on harm reduction which modifies the strict approach of abstinence only sex education by including education about safe sex and birth control methods. The ABC approach was developed in response to the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa), and to prevent the spread of other sexually transmitted diseases.

It recommends sexual abstinence outside marriage as an ideal, having only a single long-term sexual partner if that ideal cannot be met, and the use of condoms and other safe sex practices if it is not possible to remain with a single sexual partner. Advocating this ideal, whilst pragmatically dealing with the fact that abstinence only sex education is ineffective by itself, has made the ABC approach more palatable to many African governments and U.S. funding agencies who answer to a majorily Christian voter base.^{[citation needed]}

The ABC approach has notably been used in African countries like Botswana and Uganda.