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I was alarmed after reading this article about the sheer ignorant, irresponsible, and disregardful behavior of the Japanese society to diseases and educating it's young. What do you think will be the future of HIV/AIDS in Japan if they don't put a lid on the problem now?
I will give you quotes of the article I found interesting.
"In Japan, one of the world's wealthiest societies, awareness of the risks posed by the disease is almost non-existent among many young people, and yet their sexual behavior is increasingly risky."
"While HIV infection rates in Japan remain officially low at around 6,000, experts fear the real total could be higher, and will get a lot worse unless attitudes begin to change to a disease many Japanese believe only foreigners can catch."
""We never had much sex education at school. We were taught little about contraception, or how you catch HIV or other diseases. Teachers just don't feel comfortable talking about sex," she said."
"Yusuke Izumi, a university student, said: "I don't remember getting any sex education at school - we just talked about it among ourselves, about the things we did with girls." "
"By the age of 17, more than a third of teenagers in Japan have already had sex at least once."
"There are other statistics which Dr Akaeda finds even more alarming. Sexually-transmitted diseases are rising rapidly among young women - a sure sign of having sex with multiple partners but without using condoms."
"Teenagers these days are very casual about sex. They're happy to have sex with anyone they meet - they use phrases like 'let's play together?' "
""I gave away vouchers for free STD tests to girls, and found that 82% them were infected."
"In Japan, sex has become a freely-traded commodity, seemingly unconstrained by moral concerns.
Dozens of pornographic cable TV channels on sale here, and yet sales of condoms have been falling for several years."
I feel sorry for what the likely future of this country is. What do you think the future of this country will be as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned and how can Americans help to change that?
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3890689.stm
I will give you quotes of the article I found interesting.
"In Japan, one of the world's wealthiest societies, awareness of the risks posed by the disease is almost non-existent among many young people, and yet their sexual behavior is increasingly risky."
"While HIV infection rates in Japan remain officially low at around 6,000, experts fear the real total could be higher, and will get a lot worse unless attitudes begin to change to a disease many Japanese believe only foreigners can catch."
""We never had much sex education at school. We were taught little about contraception, or how you catch HIV or other diseases. Teachers just don't feel comfortable talking about sex," she said."
"Yusuke Izumi, a university student, said: "I don't remember getting any sex education at school - we just talked about it among ourselves, about the things we did with girls." "
"By the age of 17, more than a third of teenagers in Japan have already had sex at least once."
"There are other statistics which Dr Akaeda finds even more alarming. Sexually-transmitted diseases are rising rapidly among young women - a sure sign of having sex with multiple partners but without using condoms."
"Teenagers these days are very casual about sex. They're happy to have sex with anyone they meet - they use phrases like 'let's play together?' "
""I gave away vouchers for free STD tests to girls, and found that 82% them were infected."
"In Japan, sex has become a freely-traded commodity, seemingly unconstrained by moral concerns.
Dozens of pornographic cable TV channels on sale here, and yet sales of condoms have been falling for several years."
I feel sorry for what the likely future of this country is. What do you think the future of this country will be as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned and how can Americans help to change that?
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3890689.stm