Media contributions
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Title China Diagnoses 131,000 New HIV Cases This Year Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Caixin Media type Web Duration/Length/Size Two paragrahps Country/Territory China Date 5/12/19 Description Sun Zhipeng, a Ph.D. researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who specializes in HIV/AIDS control among Chinese men, told Caixin Global in a written interview that the disease’s growing prevalence among senior-age men in China underlines the lack of research into the sexual behavior of the country’s older people.
“To a greater or letter extent, elderly people and their sexuality have always been ‘ignored’ in AIDS research and social studies of sex,” he said. “So, there are two main things we need to discuss more. First, the report does not clarify whether these older men are becoming infected with the AIDS virus through sexual contact with members of the opposite sex or members of the same sex. And second, we can’t just pay attention to men at their so-called sexual peak; we must consider the sexual and emotional needs of older men as well.”
“They only intervene in their sexual behavior, but don’t go out and understand … their social positions and roles, their life circumstances, or the challenges to their wellbeing that they face in contemporary China,” Sun told Caixin Global.Producer/Author Zhipeng Sun URL https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-12-05/china-diagnoses-131000-new-hiv-cases-this-year-101491090.html Persons Zhipeng Sun