{"id":67,"date":"2003-10-28T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2003\/10\/28\/could-censorship-contribute-to-the-asian-aids-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:01:26","slug":"could-censorship-contribute-to-the-asian-aids-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2003\/10\/could-censorship-contribute-to-the-asian-aids-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Could censorship contribute to the Asian AIDS epidemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities are blocking access by their citizenry to web sites containing information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like AIDS.  Combined with the worrisome state of health-care in China, I think these actions may prove to fan the fires of the current AIDS epidemic in Asia.  When the Chinese government tried to control information about SARS, it led to panic and rampant, unfounded beliefs that herbs or vinegar could cure the disease.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/2540309.stm\">Source<\/a> at BBC News (also linked in post called &#8220;Cover Up News, Hands Off Porn?&#8221;)<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexis.com\">Source<\/a> at Nexis.com (Washington Post article dated 4 May 03 by G. Lazarus entitled &#8220;Sick and Tired Of Their Own System&#8230;&#8221;), registration required.<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceip.org\/files\/Publications\/2003-04-07-sars.asp?from=pubdate\">Source<\/a> at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities are blocking access by their citizenry to web sites containing information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like AIDS. Combined with the worrisome state of health-care in China, I think these actions may prove to fan the fires of the current AIDS epidemic in Asia. When the Chinese government tried to control information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6376],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-hivaids","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Could censorship contribute to the Asian AIDS epidemic?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2003\/10\/could-censorship-contribute-to-the-asian-aids-epidemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Could censorship contribute to the Asian AIDS epidemic?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese authorities are blocking access by their citizenry to web sites containing information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like AIDS. 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