Most young Chinese have liberal attitudes toward sex but are largely ignorant about safe sex and reproductive health. That's the main conclusion from China’s first ever national youth sex survey.
The results, released earlier this month, show that two thirds of Chinese youngsters aged 15 to 24 are open to premarital sex – and more than 20 percent have had sex.
In China, measures to tackle HIV/AIDS had always been decided by government leaders- with little regard for input from civil society. But recently China's fight against the disease has taken what experts are calling a historic turn. BON's Kelda Yuen has more on the country's new forum that will- for the first time- provide activists and people living with HIV/AIDS to be heard by the country's top policy makers.
According to the United Nations, 51 countries, territories and areas currently impose some form of travel restriction on people living with HIV/AIDS. Recently, China announced its lifting of its entry ban on foreign carriers of the virus.
David Moser invites two founders of Tsinghua University's Institute for Health Communication to discuss the realities and taboos of the HIV/AIDS in China.
David Moser invites two founders of Tsinghua University's Institute for Health Communication to discuss the realities and taboos of the HIV/AIDS in China.
In the past two decades, attitudes toward sex have undergone sweeping liberation in China. The country's recently released national survey on the reproductive health of youth reveal the changed sexual attitudes and behaviors of China's younger generation, as well as the problems that have arisen from China's sexual revolution. BON's Kelda Yuen has more.