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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in China: history, current strategies and future challenges.
Zunyou Wu,Keming Rou,Haixia Cui +2 more
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Although the challenges facing HIV/AIDs control in China are many, the Chinese government is making a stronger commitment for implementing effective AIDS control measures in the country.Abstract:
This article reviews the epidemic of HIV infection and AIDS, the Chinese national policy development in response to the epidemic, and disparities between policies and the need for AIDS prevention in China. The HIV epidemic in China has gone through three phases, and it is now at the rapid expansion phase. Since 1988, HIV/AIDS has been addressed from a legal perspective, but in the early stages laws and regulations actually hindered HIV control efforts. Since 1995 efforts have been made to improve policy decisions. Two major strategic plans were issued in 1998 and 2001, with increased government funding for implementation. Although the challenges facing HIV/AIDs control in China are many, the Chinese government is making a stronger commitment for implementing effective AIDS control measures in the country.read more
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Evolution of China's response to HIV/AIDS
Zunyou Wu,Sheena G. Sullivan,Sheena G. Sullivan,Yu Wang,Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus,Roger Detels +5 more
TL;DR: Four factors have driven China's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic: existing government structures and networks of relationships, increasing scientific information, external influences that underscored the potential consequences of an HIV/ AIDS pandemic, accelerated strategic planning, and increasing political commitment at the highest levels.
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'Face' and the embodiment of stigma in China: the cases of schizophrenia and AIDS.
Lawrence H. Yang,Arthur Kleinman +1 more
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Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the relationship between economic and political opportunities in Chinese civil society, and proposed a model to adapt to the political opportunity structure to solve insoluble problems.
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Sexual Behavior in China: Trends and Comparisons
TL;DR: In 2000, the first national probability survey of adult sexual behavior in China was completed as discussed by the authors, which examined eight trends covering two markers of change: the onset of sexual behavior (puberty masturbation age at first sex and marriage premarital sex) and commodification of sex (use of pornographic materials and commercial sex).
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TL;DR: The study demonstrated that the prevalence of HIV infection in the commercial plasma donor population was alarmingly high and many married individuals and those getting married in the future will transmit the virus to their spouses and future children.
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TL;DR: An overview to HIV/AIDS transmission through injection drug use in China is provided, followed by a discussion of the emergence of drug related AIDS, and a profile of drug users and their sexual partners who have contracted the virus or who are vulnerable to infection.
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Condom use among female sex workers in China: role of gatekeepers.
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TL;DR: Assessment of the potential role of gatekeepers of establishments in promoting condom use among female sex workers (FSWs) in China found perceived gatekeeper support for condom use was low, and gatekeepers need to clearly articulate their support for condoms use to the FSWs.
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Characteristics of risk-taking behaviors HIV and AIDS knowledge and risk perception among young males in southwest China.
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