Global AIDS - China
Links
| http://www.casy.org |
| China AIDS Survey aims to provide historical and analytical
resources for relevant HIV/AIDS stakeholders, including educational
and advocacy groups, government and civil society, policy/media
organisations a diverse database dedicated to the AIDS crisis
in China. |
| http://www.gaychinese.net |
This is one of the leading gay websites in Chinese.Established
in 1999, it
provides timely news about GLBT cultures and movements throughout
the world,
in addition to advice columns, legal information, health education
and
support for gay youth.While the website was blocked by the
government in
May,2005, it can still be accessed from other countries. |
| Youthnet |
A global program aimed at improving the reproductive health
and the prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people 10 to 24
years old. It's employed the energy, insight, and experience
of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media,
health professionals, non-government agencies, religious and
community leaders, and other youth networks.
It's in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic. |
| Biology
of AIDS |
| The World Edition of BBC News is carrying a superb series
on the biology of AIDS covering the Hiv virus, Infection,
Early Stages and as AIDS Develops. |
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Clinical Trials Announced Into Efficacy
of Limes (or lemons) as Nature’s Microbicide
to Combat HIV/AIDS!
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Agreement on Eve of XV International
AIDS
Conference in Bangkok - 11-16 July, 2004
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“In Press, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 2004”
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: New Ways of Preventing Infection in
Men - Professor R. V. Short FAA, FRS
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Dr Yuan Gao, another key member of the Lemonaids, shuttles
between Australia and China on a regular basis.
He is the Director of the Australian-Chinese AIDS/STD Peer Education
Program; Senior Research Fellow (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow), Melbourne
Sexual Health Centre, School of Population Health, University
of Melbourne.
He went to China in 1997 and established a joint peer education
project on AIDS/STD/Safe-Sex for Chinese youth - a pathfinder
program supported by China's Ministry of Health.
His training manual has been used to educate thousands of students
at a host of schools and universities.
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Dr Yuan Gao
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China AIDS Survey - October, 2003
China AIDS Survey aims to provide
historical and analytical resources for relevant HIV/AIDS stakeholders,
including educational and advocacy groups, government and civil society,
policy/media organisations a diverse database dedicated to the AIDS
crisis in China.
http://www.casy.org
Beijing - July 11, 2003 AFP
The first ever website
giving advice on sexual health to young people has been launched in
China as the population becomes more sexually active and at an earlier
age, according to the China Daily.
The interactive
site encourages youngsters to openly discuss their love lives and
all matters related to sex, according to site designer Sang Qing.
According to UN sources, between 800,000 and 1.5 million Chinese were
infected with HIV up to December, 2001, and the number could reach 10
million by 2010.
Dr Yuan Gao
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Dr Yuan Gao is the Director of the Australian-Chinese AIDS/STD
Peer Education Program; Senior Research Fellow (Vice-Chancellor's
Fellow), Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, School of Population
Health, University of Melbourne.
Dr Yuan Gao, another key member of the Lemonaids, shuttles between
Australia and China on a regular basis.
He went to China in 1997 and established a joint peer education
project on AIDS/STD/Safe-Sex for Chinese youth, a pathfinder program
supported by China's Ministry of Health.
His training manual has been used to educate thousands of students
at a host of schools and universities.
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Dr Yuan Gao
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Melbourne and China
Little is generally known about the host of various efforts that seek
in some way or another to alleviate the global suffering brought about
by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The Australian AIDS Fund Inc would particularly salute the work of those
at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital and the University of Melbourne
who have been quietly involved in pathfinder work in China, and in particular
the work of Professor Roger Short and his team, especially the effort
of Dr Yuan Gao who went to China in 1997 to establish a joint peer education
project on AIDS/STD/Safe-Sex for Chinese youth, a project registered
and supported by China's Ministry of Health and who continues to shuttle
between Australia and China to oversee this work.
The training manual has been used to educate thousands of students
at 8 universities and a number of schools.
The project has also trained over 300 university students who were Red
Cross volunteers as youth peer educators in training workshops organised
by the Beijing Red Cross Society, the Fujian Red Cross Society and the
Guangxi Red Cross Society.
In his Foreword to the training manual, Melbourne University's Professor
Roger Short says China could be the one success story in combating the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
"For it is China that can show the rest of the world that the
best approach is prevention through education. It is young people who
hold the key to stopping the spread of HIV infection and AIDS".
AIDS and Sex Education for Young People in China
Y. GaoAD, Z.Z. LuB, R. ShiB, X.Y. SunB and Y. CaiC (2001)
Although China has had a rich sexual culture for thousands of years,
Chinese people are usually unwilling to openly discuss issues of sex.
Some parents are quite ignorant of the change in their children's sexual
attitude and behaviour. In China today, adolescents are becoming much
ore sexually liberated. Premarital sex and unplanned pregnancies among
teenagers are increasing. Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) including
HIV/AIDS are also spreading rapidly. However, young people lack basic
information of AIDS/STD and do not know ho to protect themselves from
these diseases or how to avoid unintended pregnancies.
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