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SCMP - Friday, June 20, 2003
Women face Aids risk from bisexual husbands: study AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Paris Updated at 11.21am: Chinese women face a significant risk of catching HIV from bisexual husbands, according to a study published this Saturday. The threat has been overlooked in the effort to tackle China's worsening Aids problem, which at present is being driven by intravenous drug use and infected blood transfusion, its authors warn. Chinese and US doctors carried out an extensive inquiry about sexual habits and backgrounds among 481 Beijing men who had sex with other men. The participants were discreetly recruited to the study through bars, parks and bath-houses. Two-thirds of them were married. Fifteen of the 481 men tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with a higher prevalence of infection among men aged over 39. Half of all the men said they had had unprotected sex with other men during the previous six months, and almost a quarter had had unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse with women during that period. "These findings suggest that men who have sex with men could potentially serve as a sexual bridge between high-risk men and low-risk women," the authors say. "This sexual mixing pattern might contribute to the sexual transmission of HIV-1 to heterosexually active adults. To some extent, this pattern has been seen in other Asian countries, notably India." The study was led by Kyung-Hee Choi of the Centre for Aids Prevention Studies at the University of California in San Francisco. It is published in the British medical weekly The Lancet. Last June, the United Nations warned China that without urgent action, it could face a "catastrophe (involving) unimaginable human suffering." According to UN estimates, between 800,000 and 1.5 million people in China had HIV by December 2001, and the number could reach 10 million by 2010. Shared use of intravenous needles by drug use and infection through contaminated blood donations account for about three-quarters of current cases in China. However, experience in other countries has shown that the virus leaps out of narrow social categories and is quickly spread through sexual transmission. This is especially the case in countries where prostitution and homosexual contacts are common but where repressive attitudes make it difficult to promote safe-sex practices. posted by cbs on Friday, June 20, 2003 |
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