Home>News Center>Life
         
 

Beijing to install more condom machines
(Shenzhen Daily)
Updated: 2004-10-11 10:36

Beijing would install about 1,000 condom vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on construction sites this month to fight the spread of AIDS.


A worker displays condom vending machines to be installed in Beijing's universities, hotels, bars and other recreational sites. [people.com.cn file]
The machines would dispense condoms for one yuan (US$0.12) each and the quality would be guaranteed, a Beijing Disease Control and Prevention Center official was quoted as saying.

The new machines will supplement 1,700 machines already in the capital, many of which are often out of service or empty. Existing machines would be repaired this month, Guan Baoying, a city health bureau official, said.

China has 840,000 HIV/AIDS cases. The United Nations has warned the number of AIDS victims in China could quickly rise to 10 million if serious steps to fight the epidemic are not taken.

The Chinese Government has kicked off an ambitious anti-AIDS campaign calling for condom use to spread to at least 50 percent of the country’s high-risk populations by the end of next year.



Fashion show in France
Miss Brazil in contest
Miss World Tourism pageant in China
  Today's Top News     Top Life News
 

Militants set deadline for Chinese hostage

 

   
 

Hu, Chirac reach broad consensus

 

   
 

Experts: Chen's call for talks is vague

 

   
 

Experts name civet as primary SARS source

 

   
 

Economy to grow 9.4% this year and 8.9% next

 

   
 

Airbus to expand procurement from China

 

   
  Superman star Christopher Reeve dies at 52
   
  Kelly Chan to Hold Christmas Concert
   
  1st hotline helps the divorced to restore
   
  Beijing to install more condom machines
   
  China offers rewards for reporting porn
   
  Paris fashions cater to women's many moods
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Feature  
  Face to face with Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai  
Advertisement