Around this time in 2008, a new product was launched into vending machines in the corridor of The Tsinghua University campus in Beijing. At the same time, a small "sample recycling box" was added next to the vending machine.
A box of new palm-sized products priced at 30 yuan, plus snacks, paper towels and other gadgets, is completely inconspicuous.
But if you look closely, you'll see that these products are marked with the bold word "HIV." In fact, these are hive antibody reagents in colleges and universities, which is one of the new measures for colleges and universities to prevent AIDS. The first batch of equipment was put into use in universities in Beijing, Yunnan, Heilongjiang, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places, with a total of more than 30 units.
The method of use is simple: purchase a test kit - use a dedicated urine collection tube - anonymously return to the laboratory test or put it in the designated receiving port - wait for the sample to be received and sent to the designated laboratory - Register the results in the background after the laboratory test is over - The tester uses a password to obtain the test results on the mobile phone.
According to the reporter of "Sanlian Life Weekly", the Haidian Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that in the first month of installation, the vending machines of 10 universities in Haidian District sold 37 test kits, of which 14 were sent for testing, and the test results were all negative.
But not everyone can be so lucky.
Six boxes.
I thought he was "clean"!
Xiao Wang is a clinical intern at a hospital and has a same-sex fixed partner Chen Xiao who has known him for several years. Chen Xiao is a master's degree, near graduation, and has been admitted to the civil service.
They have similar interests, know each other and trust each other. But because of Xiao Wang's professional quality and understanding of AIDS, he is still very vigilant, and they always pay attention to protection when they have sex.
Until that day, the two people drank wine, the mood was very high, and there were no condoms around... They fear that sticking to condoms will "ruin their fun, and they don't stick with condoms because of their trust and lucky attitude towards both parties.
Six months later, Xiao Wang found HIV positive on routine tests.
2. More than just testing!?
Jiaming and Qiangzhi are same-sex friends who meet on social tools. Both people are at prestigious schools, one is studying physics and the other is a student, but they have a common foreign university that they want to pass, so they exchange ideas with each other online for a long time.
After a while, both partners find that their feelings for each other exceed those of ordinary same-sex friends. Jiaming took the first step, telling Zhiqiang that he had always liked boys, and he was touched by Zhiqiang.
Zhiqiang has never been prejudiced against sexual orientation, but he is a bit surprised by being expressed by the same sex. They didn't stop contacting, on the contrary, their connection was getting warmer. They still talk about learning, games, and the future together every day, and agree to travel together after graduation.
The meeting lifted the final veil and they had a relationship.
Anal sex began to use condoms, but because Zhiqiang felt uncomfortable, Jiaming proposed not to wear condoms anymore. Zhiqiang hesitated, hoping to persevere.
Jiaming said: "I tested for HIV at the CDC half a year ago, and the test result was negative, normal! Also, for the first time, it may be difficult to have condoms."
Zhiqiang was persuaded.
Because he joined the "circle", Zhiqiang also learned more about HIV testing. A few months later, when he came back to the CDC for a health checkup, he found himself HIV positive and syphilis positive. He told Jiaming the test results, and Jiaming immediately went to check and found that the results were also HIV positive and positive for syphilis!
Later, the two of them learned from the doctor that the HIV test only reflected the situation before the test. Sex should always be sustained and protected, and we shouldn't take luck or test results as the standard for using condoms.
3. Are homosexuals not easily infected?
Yi Xin, a sophomore, has been a good girl since she was a child. Her family was in good condition, but she had always been independent. She didn't need her family to worry about studying, she always went to good school. Seeming quiet and intelligent, living in her was like a rainbow about to unfold.
The little sisters around all have boyfriends of their own. It was as if college life didn't have its own, so I couldn't talk to my little sisters.
So she started registering with some dating communities. I talked to her a lot, but either I came up right away to make an appointment or I couldn't talk to her. She had a serious communication attitude and didn't seem to have qualified people.
But until a man named "Beast Impermanence" walked into her life, he read a lot of books, had a formal and decent job, and talked about some places, Yi Xin felt that he was very knowledgeable and reserved.
Fits her definition of a boyfriend.
The meeting did not spoil her impression of him. Gentle, neat and generous in appearance, even a little handsome. So they quickly established a relationship. With the mentality of seriously interacting with her boyfriend, Yi Xin treats this man almost wholeheartedly. Whenever he asked, he didn't say a word of "no," including the other person saying he wanted a "more unreserved" sexual relationship.
Yi Xin, who will turn 20 by the end of this year, hopes to be honest with her family. But I haven't contacted her boyfriend since winter break. After suffering for half a year, Yi Xin received a text message from her boyfriend.
He told her that, in fact, he had always had several close girlfriends. At the beginning of the physical examination, he found that he was HIV-positive, because he did not want to cause trouble to the people around him, he had left the original city to go into seclusion. A few days later, Yi Xin went to the CDC to test and tested positive for HIV antibodies.
4. We've been together for two years.
Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li were introduced by friends in the circle. They met for a few years before becoming same-sex couples. After formally establishing the relationship, they went to the hospital for an HIV test and everything was normal!
As a result, they promised each other that they would never again have a relationship with anyone. So in the two years they lived together, they didn't take any safety measures and went to the hospital regularly for HIV testing, and the results were always fine!
But the two were separated by some trivial quarrels. After a few months apart, the two met for dinner, and then there was male-to-male behavior without condoms. A few months later, Xiao Zhang went to the CDC for HIV testing and tested positive.
According to Xiao Zhang's recollection, before breaking up with Xiao Li, all HIV tests were normal, and he did not have sexual contact with anyone for more than half a year.
Later, Xiao Zhang told Xiao Li the HIV test results and found that Xiao Li had had sex with three people for more than half a year and had never used condoms with two of them.
5. Can't catch it once!
Xiao He and Zhou Xiao met at an outdoor event by the sea, and both of them like each other.
Zhou Xiao is a handsome, quiet, non-talkative boy. He came to the city from his hometown to study. He worked for a long time and had his own residence in their city. Soon after they established a same-sex sexual relationship, they moved in together.
They made an appointment to test for HIV regularly every year, with no problems in previous years. In a 2015 test, they were also found to be infected with HIV.
Zhou Xiao did not believe this result at the time, because only he and Xiaohe had male sex. Under Zhou Xiao's questioning, Xiao He said that during a business trip, he met a casual companion because he was used not to using condoms with Zhou Xiao, nor did he use condoms with this accidental companion.
Because of Xiaohe's negligence, they were also infected with HIV.
6. Disorder after drinking alcohol
Zhou is a Ph.D. in sociology from a university. Because he has a deep understanding of sexual orientation and has a group of "insider" friends, he does not exclude going to "gay bars" with friends for recreation.
Go to the bar with a good friend, get drunk and come out of the bar, and go to the "open room" with his friend Little H in the circle, because of the influence of alcohol, unsafe sex has occurred.
A few months later, when Tan Zhou was in the hospital for a physical examination, he was told that there was a problem with his blood. Doctors at the hospital asked him to go to the CDC for blood tests. Later, Xiao H found HIV positive and syphilis positive for syphilis at the Yantai Cd-operative Center.
A set of numbers.
The author worked for a period of time in the AIDS Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, had contact with more than a dozen domestic MDOs and members, and ran a small VCT clinic in a small southern city to serve men who have sex with men.
The above cases come from patients and institutions I have contacted, and the names are pseudonyms, which are collations and adaptations of real cases. But sometimes this data may make you more aware of the problem:
Data released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission show that sexual transmission is the main way to contract AIDS, and 81.6% of young students are infected through male transmission, which is very serious.
Beijing: In the past two years, beijing has added more than 100 new cases of HIV infection among college students every year, with same-sex sex as the main transmission route.
Shanghai: In 2015, a total of 92 infections were reported from young students, an increase of 31.4% over the same period last year.
Guangzhou: Since 2002, students have been found to be infected with HIV/ AIDS. By the end of 2013, there were 117 cumulative confirmed cases, of which 90% were same-sex transmission.
Nanchang: Among the new student cases from 2011 to 2015, male homosexual transmission accounted for 83.61%.
Hunan Province: A total of 536 cases were reported from 2007 to 2015, of which the students infected with HIV were mainly male, accounting for more than 90%, and the main transmission route was male homosexual transmission, accounting for 69.6%.
Write at the end.
To sum up "why colleges and universities have become the hardest hit areas of AIDS" seems to be a great proposition.
The lack of sex education has been debated for a long time, but who should provide the right sex education? At a time when sex education publications are still being misread (click to see 13 million abortions a year, but sex education is still misread), are parents, educational institutions or the illusory "society" to shoulder this responsibility?
Another way of thinking is to achieve the purpose of prevention by influencing the students themselves.
In the era of new media, everyone is a directly affected unit. Can there be more flexible means, such as administrative or market means, to develop more targeted public service advertisements for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment on social networking sites, especially "gay" products, to raise the safety awareness of high-risk groups?
Unless a few people are genetically deficient, all are at high risk of AIDS. From this perspective, everyone should have safe sex.
Take responsibility for yourself and others.