{"title":"Nearly 25 percent of Chinese know little of AIDS.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nearly one-quarter of China's people lack even basic knowledge about AIDS, while 2% have never heard of the disease, the Beijing Youth Daily said. A survey by the outspoken Southern Weekend newspaper of 1000 households in four cities showed that 24% of respondents knew little or nothing about AIDS, while just 5% said they were very familiar with the disease, the daily said. About 69% said they had some understanding of AIDS, and 2% said they had never heard of the disease, it quoted the survey as saying. Differences in understanding of AIDS were especially marked along educational lines, with educated people more likely to read newspapers that were the main source of AIDS information in China, it said. Younger people were more likely to know more about the disease than older people. Most of those who said they knew something about the disease had identified sexual activity and blood exchange as the main means of transmission, but 16% believed it could be spread through casual contact. About one-third of respondents said they thought AIDS was a major problem in China, according to the survey. At the end of October 1996 China reported 5157 cases of people infected with HIV and 133 patients with advanced AIDS. Officials said the actual number of those infected could be as high as 100,000. The population of China is about 1.2 billion.</p>","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22018567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expert forecasts AIDS epidemic. International (Russia).","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zimbabwe women petition state on female condom.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India AIDS situation seen out of control by 2000.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"11-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female health foundation launched to educate women. Contraception (STDs).","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIV spreading among women and children in Asia and Eastern Europe.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"17-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spermicide effects questioned by FDA panel.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spermicides clearly work better than no contraceptive at all, but there's no way to say how effective they are or whether women should opt for a gel, foam, suppository, or film, a scientific panel concluded. The advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) heard disturbing evidence that women who rely on spermicides as their sole contraceptive have anywhere from a 9% to a 57% chance of becoming pregnant within a year. Spermicides appear to work best when used just 30 minutes before intercourse, said Dr. James Trussell of Princeton University. Nobody knows for sure how well spermicides work, and which work best, because the only studies ever performed were flawed. The manufacturers never proved how well their products work because they hit the market in 1950, before the FDA required such proof. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to begin a study comparing one brand of each type of commercially available spermicide to see how effective they are. The results will not be available for at least 4 years, so the FDA is debating what to tell consumers in the meantime and if that study will be enough. The FDA may soon change spermicide labels at least to rank the products as less effective than other contraceptives, Dr. Lisa Rarick, FDA reproductive health chief, said. Spermicides also should bear a warning that they may cause vaginal irritation, a condition one study suggests might increase a woman's chances of catching HIV, the scientific panel told the FDA. The same panel agreed, however, that spermicides can help protect women against two other sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhea and chlamydia.</p>","PeriodicalId":84120,"journal":{"name":"AIDS weekly plus","volume":" ","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}