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- Title: Turning Points in China's AIDS Response (Report)
- Author : China: An International Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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Introduction In the two decades since the first AIDS case was confirmed in China (1985), public perception of the disease has undergone a sea change. In 1985, the disease was viewed as a foreign disease associated with illicit behaviour to be controlled by testing all foreigners who entered the country. In 2008, China had an internationally lauded AIDS prevention and treatment policy that endorsed many best practices and was promoted by the senior leadership. The changing attitude towards AIDS parallels shifts in Chinese society and politics in the three decades since the end of China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1976. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese were a traumatised, suspicious, fearful and inward-looking society. By the beginning of the new millennium, China was an emerging global power, a country that is both partner and participant in globalisation. A new and large generation of youths, coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s and largely spared the trauma of the previous generation, make up a newly emerging educated middle class. Increasingly exposed to new ideas and values from the outside, and connected by the Internet and global media, this new generation has greater respect for the value of life and tolerance for diversity. Because the highest risk groups for AIDS infection are often the most highly stigmatised groups in society, the acknowledgement and increasing acceptance of these groups and their behaviours has opened the door for a more sympathetic attitude towards HIV/AIDS and a coordinated public policy response based on best international practices.
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