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- BEIJING
(Reuters) - Only
3.8 percent of Chinese know how HIV/AIDS is
transmitted, according to a
survey of 3,824 people in cities and
villages throughout China.
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- The Guangming Daily said on Thursday the survey by the
Ministry of Health and the People's University of China asked people aged
between 20 and 64 if HIV/AIDS could be transmitted through blood, semen,
the air, food and from touching the skin of an infected person.
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- Only 3.8 percent
correctly identified blood and semen
as the only ways to become
infected with HIV/AIDS, the newspaper said.
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- It said the survey, published
on the eve of World AIDS
Day, showed that 53.6 percent thought they
could become infected by using
chopsticks and bowls after an
HIV-positive person had used them.
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- Another 49.5 percent thought
they could become infected
after sneezing and 29.5 percent through
shaking hands.
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- And 45.3 percent thought that using a condom would not
prevent
infection.
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- ``It's worrying that people are unclear about the ways
AIDS is
transmitted and severely fear AIDS appearing,'' Professor Bo Suiming
of
the People's University was quoted as saying.
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- Efforts to promote sex
education and the use of condoms
often run into a wall of conservative
attitudes in China.
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- Advertising or promoting condoms is also seen as
encouraging
promiscuity and China's first national condom advert was
banned initially
last year because promoting sex products conflicted
with China's social
conventions and morals.
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- HIV/AIDS sufferers often
experience prejudice from neighbors
and workers.
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- A man named Hu, whose family
became infected after his
wife was given a blood transfusion in a
hospital when she gave birth, was
told by his boss to ``go home and get
better,'' rather than go to the office,
the Beijing Evening Daily said
recently.
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- The Health Ministry is aware of the problem, said Edwin
Judd,
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in China.
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- Vice Health Minister
``Yin Dakui was very forthright
about this problem, beseeching the
press to take this message out about
the emergency nature of this
problem,'' Judd told Reuters in a recent interview.
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