Gender Policy and HIV in China Catalyzing Policy Change /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Poston, Dudley L. (Editor), Tucker, Joseph (Editor), Ren, Qiang (Editor), Gu, Baochang (Editor), Zheng, Xiaoying (Editor), Wang, Stephanie (Editor), Russell, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 22
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Infectious diseases.; Sociology.; Demography.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Social Sciences.; Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Sexual Behavior.; Sociology, general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understand...