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A survey was conducted by the China Population Communication Center and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The survey interviewed more than 3,000 people, aged between 15 and 55, with men accounting for 74 percent of the interviewees. About 34 percent of people polled in the survey said that they are unsatisfied with their sex lives. Only 23 percent of respondents said that they are ‘satisfied’ with their sex lives, with 3.6 percent ‘very satisfied’, according to the survey. Jiang Hui, president-elect of the Chinese Society of Andrology, attributed the lower rate of sexual satisfaction among Chinese people to rapid economic growth, which inevitably increases work and social pressure.

In the fight against HIV and AIDS, the United Nations has turned to K-pop boy band JYJ to bring awareness in the Asia-Pacific region, which has an estimated 4.9 million people afflicted with HIV including in the Philippines. With their incredible popularity and influence in the Republic of Korea and beyond, I count on them to reach millions of young people in this region and worldwide with important HIV messages,’ said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe.

Legislators, medical professionals and HIV and AIDS support groups had mixed reactions yesterday to a proposal to include a note on the HIV and AIDS status of individuals on their National Health Insurance cards. The proposal was suggested as a way of avoiding a repeat of the errors that led to two local hospitals carrying out several organ transplants from a donor who had been HIV-positive. ‘A note on the card (on HIV and AIDS status) could violate the HIV Infection Control and Patient Rights Protection Act,’ Bureau of Medical Affairs Director Shih Chung-liang said.

Health experts on Tuesday stressed that contraceptives are not abortifacients in relation to the ‘biomedical aspects of the Reproductive Health bill’ pending in Congress. The experts from the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Health Department, the National Academy of Science and Technology, and University of the Philippines-Manila insisted that artificial contraceptives do not help in the commission of abortion.

Dolls featuring realistic sexual organs for teaching sex education to kindergarten pupils in central China has sparked outrage among parents. In a sex education lesson, the four-year-old children could clearly name the sex organs and tell the difference between genders in a kindergarten in Zhengzhou, provincial capital of Henan, Zhengzhou Evening News reported.