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Gender Policy and HIV in China

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 22)

Editors: Poston, Dudley L.; Tucker, Joseph; Ren, Qiang; Gu, Baochang; Zheng, Xiaoying; Wang, Stephanie; Russell, Chris

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9899-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2009

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Tucker, Joseph D.; Poston, Dudley L.

Pages: 1 –6

[China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one in several regions of the country. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understanding of the proximate...
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Uncertain Population Dynamics and HIV/AIDS in China

Ren, Qiang; Zheng, Xiaoying; Lutz, Wolfgang; Scherbov, Sergei

Pages: 9 –25

[It is well known that China accounts for one-fifth of the population of the world, making China’s population trends directly relevant for global population dynamics. In this context, it is surprising how much uncertainty exists about current demographic conditions in the world’s largest country....
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Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Merli, M. Giovanna; DeWaard, Jack; Tian, Feng; Hertog, Sara

Pages: 27 –53

[China today is considered to be a low HIV prevalence country. In 2007 there were an estimated 700,000 HIV cases corresponding to 0.1% of the adult population. HIV infections tend to be concentrated in relatively well-defined population subgroups, such as injecting drug users (IDUs), former...
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China’s Unbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth: How Many Surplus Boys Have Been Born in China Since the 1980s?

Poston, Dudley L.; Zhang, Li

Pages: 57 –69

[In recent decades China has experienced an extremely rapid fertility reduction from more than six children per woman in the early 1960s to just over 1.6 children per woman in 2005 (Fig. 3.1). This fertility transition has resulted since the 1980s in significantly more boys being born each year...
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Bare Branches, Prostitution, and HIV in China: A~Demographic Analysis

Ebenstein, Avraham Y.; Jennings, Ethan

Pages: 71 –94

[The alarming rise in China’s reported HIV cases in the last decade has caused concern among government officials and public health researchers. The increase in reported HIV cases is especially worrying because the majority of new cases are not observed in traditional high risk populations (such...
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Gender, Migration, and Unprotected Causal and~Commercial Sex: Individual and Social Determinants of HIV and STD Risk Among~Female Migrants

Yang, Xiushi; Xia, Guomei

Pages: 97 –114

[With 840,000 people in China officially estimated to be living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in mid 2003, China is experiencing a rapidly growing HIV epidemic. It has started to spread from high risk groups in isolated areas to the...
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Heterosexual Male STI/HIV Risk in China

Tucker, Joseph D.; Wang, Tianfu

Pages: 115 –123

[Gender inequality is one of the core factors mediating HIV risk. Biological and cultural influences have been found to increase the risk of HIV among women, a topic extensively reviewed in the literature (DeLay, 2004; Quinn and Overbaugh, 2005). The increased heterosexual HIV risk to women...
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HIV/AIDS Structural Interventions in China: Concept, Context and Opportunities

Hong, Yan

Pages: 125 –152

[The global HIV/AIDS epidemic has leveled off in recent years, attributable to advances in both treatment and prevention. With 33 million people infected and 2.1 million deaths in 2007, HIV/AIDS remains a leading cause of death (UNAIDS, 2007). In many developing countries, the HIV virus is still...
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Patterns of Sexually Transmitted Infections in China

Garcia, Ginny; Cortes, Rachel Traut; Poston, Dudley L.

Pages: 153 –175

[The analysis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a topic of major interest in demography, sociology and other disciplines. Indeed the STI phenomenon itself has resulted in recent years in the creation of several new journals including AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Sexually...
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The “Risk Environment” for Commercial Sex Work in China: Considering the Role of Law and Law Enforcement Practices

Burris, Scott; Xia, Guomei

Pages: 179 –188

[In this chapter we describe a framework developed for considering how law influences the health risk environment for Injection Drug Users (IDUs) (Burris et al., 2004), and then apply it to the regulation of commercial sex work in~China.]

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