Beijing Promotes HIV/AIDS Prevention During Olympics
Beijing’s federal health bureau distributed 400,000 free condoms to 119 contract hotels of the Olympic Games and other hotels throughout the city to advocate safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention, Xinhua News Network reports.
According to bureau party chief Jim Dapeng, condoms had been put in more than 90,000 rooms of 424 hotels ranked three stars and above. In addition, the bureau distributed 250,000 free HIV/AIDS information pamphlets in participating hotels.
Chinese organizers worked closely with the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Olympic Committee to provide HIV/AIDS information to participants in this year’s games. At the Olympic Village health clinic, roughly 100,000 high-quality condoms were available in addition to HIV prevention information in English, French and Chinese.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
