• China's lacking sex ed is putting millions of youths at risk
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[QUOTE][B](CNN)[/B] - When Xiao Niao was in high school, her teacher gathered all the girls in her class and told them if they were raped they should take the morning after pill. That was the limit of her formal sex education. For millions of young Chinese people, it's more than they ever got. As China marks World AIDS Day Thursday, the effects of that missing knowledge is more evident than ever, with growing numbers of HIV infections and staggeringly high abortion rates.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]In 2015, there were 115,000 new HIV infections in China, according to China's National Center for STD/AIDS Prevention and Control. Of those, 17,000, or 14.7%, were in the 15-24 age group. While the overall figure is fairly low compared to China's massive population, the year-on-year growth rate among young people is around 35%. As of September 2016, there have already been 13,000 new HIV infections within the 15-24 age group. Some universities have even installed vending machines selling HIV home testing kits to students. "Machines alone can't solve the problem unless there's follow-up education to help students," said Xiong Binqi, vice president of the Beijing-based 21st Century Education Research Center.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Some sex educators, frustrated at the lack of official action, are taking it on themselves to spread the message via apps and social media such as Buzz and Bloom and Yummy. Launched last year, Buzz and Bloom (蜜丰兰花) provides sex education and health advice over messaging app WeChat. Co-founder Stephany Zoo, 24, came up with the service after she visited an abortion clinic in Shanghai with a friend and discovered how unprepared for the procedure several of the young women in the waiting room were. "So many of the girls were going in for abortions without having any idea what was going to happen," she said. For many young women, abortion is their primary form of birth control.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/30/health/china-sex-education-world-aids-day/index.html"]source[/URL]
That's fucking crazy, getting HIV at such a young age.
From what I hear from my cousins in China, the education system is so heavily focused on pure academics that they almost completely neglect any social awareness, including sex ed and drug abuse. The only reason it's rarely talked about is because the media suppression is immense. The amount of abortions that Chinese doctors witness would make a pro-life protester implode with rage.
Maybe we can air-drop condoms on them like we do with stuff in North Korea. What could go wrong?
[QUOTE=Chonch;51458109]Maybe we can air-drop condoms on them like we do with stuff in North Korea. What could go wrong?[/QUOTE] "american plot to weaken chinese army"
Leaving sex ed up to parents to teach doesn't make any sense and clearly doesn't work. Just an anecdote but I knew more about general sex ed at 18 than my mom did at the time. That was when she accidentally got pregnant with my youngest brother because she followed false information about the calendar rythm method of birthcontrol.
Going through two Health/Phys Ed courses in college makes you understand why health classes should be mandatory before you arrive. The public education in the South leaves a lot to be desired, and a lot of people here are homeschooled by ultra-conservative/religious parents that don't cover sex ed. Several women my friends and I have talked with thought pulling out prevented pregnancy :v: The other thing I think should be discussed in schools globally is relationships and dealing with the opposite sex in general. Girls and boys are separated into different groups and treated differently from an early age, and rarely get a chance to hang out with the other sex in a one-on-one setting until they start dating. Sex Ed and Health topics are avoided in schools due to cultural concerns but I think that at least exposing the concepts in high school can prevent a lot of issues.
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