http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/25/todays_links_un.php All comments for Today's Links: Unsafe bridges, lethal fish and smoke-free restaurants en-us 2009 shang_kenneth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:13 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kenneth@shanghaiist.com kenneth@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/25/todays_links_un.php#comment-1107937 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/25/todays_links_un.php#comment-1107937 Comments Sat, 26 May 2007 13:44:45 +0800 <p>I'd love to get my hands on a pack of the AIDS awareness playing cards -- what's one the face cards? Kaposi's Sarcoma? Pseudomembranous Candidiasis? How do they represent the acute phase or the 10+/- asymptomatic years? Really, it's not just the migrants who need them, but average Chinese is so ignorant about 性病 it's just frightening. In other parts of Asia, HIV/AIDS is a much, much more open topic and the government and NGO's do a great deal to raise public awareness. Here, it is a big secret and a taboo, especially since the government has accidentally infected so many people -- like 300,000 farmers in Henan, which is why previously, if you searched "china hiv" in Google, the search was firewalled.</p>