HIV/AIDS
Data on HIV/AIDS Detailed by Researchers at National Academy of Sciences
Published in AIDS Weekly, October 3rd, 2011
2011 OCT 3 -- According to the authors of recent research from Taipei, Taiwan, "This article employs the rite of passage concept to analyze why and how heroin use and a subsequent HIV/AIDS epidemic have taken hold among minority Nuosu (Yi) young men in Southwest China. It juxtaposes structural inequalities and sociocultural particularities in social suffering among Nuosu youths as they attempt to create meaningful lives in China's market reform era."
"Since the 1980s, young Nuosu have ventured out to Han-dominant cities in search of fun and opportunities. This movement has become a new foray into manhood and inadvertently set up their encounter with heroin...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2011-10-03)
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