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AIDS Director to China Warns Gays on High-Risk Behavior


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Ray Yip, director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation China program.

Ray Yip, MD, an expert on HIV/AIDS and director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s China Program, issued a stern warning to China’s gays, urging them to “engage their community to take part in the intervention.”

According to the news site Xinhua, Yip called HIV transmission through gay sex “one of the biggest emerging challenges,” citing a drastic increase in transmissions among men who have sex with men since 2003. The site reports that according to the  Chinese Ministry of Health, last year “MSM transmission accounted for 32.5 percent of China's total HIV/AIDS infections, up from only 0.4 percent in 2005.”

“We need the MSM group to engage their community to take part in the intervention,” the doctor said, asking, “Will they promote safe sex? Will they be promoting early testing? Will they be supporting people already with HIV? So the key is their involvement in the prevention."

Chinese society often makes it difficult for those with HIV, especially gay men, to admit to it. Yin fears that many infected citizens do not take advantage of free government HIV testing. He explains, “"It is those people who don't know they are HIV carriers are dangerous. We need to find them.”

Yip, the former director of the Global AIDS Program in China, holds medical and master of public health degrees from University of Minnesota.

The Gates Foundation has so far committed $50 million to cooperative programs with the Chinese government and local nongovernmental organizations, including a $7 million grant to Peking University for HIV prevention research.

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  • Name: John
    Date posted: 7/30/2010 11:42:40 PM
    Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

    Comment:

    @Raphael, Gays may face a lot of discrimination in China, but homosexuality is no longer illegal. Condoms are available at every supermarket and corner store -- they are not "regulated".

  • Name: Raphael
    Date posted: 7/30/2010 4:12:18 PM
    Hometown: World

    Comment:

    Isn't this a bit of a simplification to the true problem, being gay in China is still illegal and the laws are applied unevenly. The Chinese government doesn't acknowledge sex except to enforce the one couple one child rule. They still discourage homosexuality even though it is proven that a species that is stressed with overpopulation will increase the number of homosexuals born. It is widely seen in the animal kingdom and is becoming more apparent in humans as well. The species is being stressed, in China daughters are frowned on so there are more males that reach adulthood than females. It is the son that cares for the parent not the daughter, she takes care of her husbands parents. Birth control in China is regulated including condoms so safe sex is a difficult thing for unmarried Chinese men, thus the increase of STDs and HIV infections.



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