Sociocultural contexts and communication about sex in China: informing HIV/STD prevention programs.

摘要: HIV may be particularly stigmatizing in Asia because of its association with "taboo" topics, including sex, drugs, homosexuality, and death (Aoki, Ngin, Mo, & Ja, 1989). These cultural schemata expose salient boundaries moral implications for sexual communication (Chin, 1999, Social Science Medicine, 49, 241-251). Yet HIV/STD prevention efforts are frequently conducted the public realm. Education strategies often involve conversations health "experts" about condom use, safe partner communication. The gap between context intervention private norm-bound nature sex conversation is challenging. Interviews 32 market workers eastern China focused on knowledge, beliefs, values surrounding practices, meanings, Sex-talk taboos, information seeking, vulnerability, communication, change emerged as central to understanding flow each theme's relative influence described. Findings illustrate how Chinese contexts impact effectiveness message