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PubMed1994

Check, please. Don't expect after-dinner mints.

That's because when the check arrives, there'll be condoms instead. Cabbage and Condoms, a Thai restaurant overseen by the Bangkok-based Population and Development Association, serves both items. The eatery plans to open its first overseas outlet in Beijing next month. "We have been working with Chinese family-planning groups and chose Beijing because it is the capital of the world's most populous country," says PDA founding chairman Mechai Viravaidya, who is widely known as "Mr. Condom" for his promotion of the device to stem population growth and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Stressing public awareness over coercion represents the next wave of birth control in China. The country's population is projected to hit 1.65 billion stabilizing around 2044. "Our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy," quips Mechai. Cabbages and condoms plans to serve Chinese and Thai dishes and offer karaoke. Profits will go to promoting birth control and AIDS awareness. The opening is timely: the World Health Organization recently urged China to boost its efforts to fight the spread of AIDS. Officially the country has 1159 cases of the disease, but the real number may be a lot higher. The PDA also plans to open restaurants in Vietnam, Australia and the US.

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PubMed1995

China. FP education at the grassroots level.

In order to reach the grassroots level with family planning information, the Publicity and Education Department of State Family Planning Commission (SFPC) established a network of FP and communication centers in 29 provinces to undertake FP publicity and disseminate educational materials. However, these mechanisms were not far-reaching enough to cover the rural and more remote areas of the counties where information was most needed and have direct access to grassroot FP service providers, fieldworkers, and end-users. Thus, the SFPC decided to further set up 180 pilot county stations under the project CPR/90/P17 (Strengthening Rural Grassroots Family Planning Publicity and Education). These pilot county stations provided training and guided village/township FP workers and service providers on how to communicate FP to the target groups effectively. They also strengthened the existing 29 Provincial Publicity and Education Sub-Centers through training programs, production and distribution of appropriate IEC materials. The project was recently evaluated with the assistance of UNESCO CST Population Communication Adviser, who reported a number of weaknesses as well as successes in the implementation of the project. Based on the findings, the evaluation report recommended the improvement of the training in various aspects to suit the Chinese culture. It proposed that the training curriculum should be "need-based" and developed through participatory approach, with specific behavioral objectives, using participatory training methodologies and competency-based evaluation. It also recommended that the content of future IEC materials should be updated on a regular basis, using survey findings in the local area where possible in response to the finding that most IEC materials had taken on urban, mass-media bias. It further added that the materials should include new messages on how to combat rumors and misconceptions on various FP methods, on responsible sexual behavior, on teenage pregnancy and prevention and on reproductive health needs of adolescents.

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PubMed1991

China unveils its monumental two per thousand fertility survey.

The author reports on China's 1988 Two per Thousand Survey, using information from papers presented at an international seminar in Beijing that focused on fertility and contraception. "Seminar papers confirmed the high quality of the survey and its potential for research on topics ranging from rates of sterility to the demography of Tibet. They also suggested that family planning in China is moving on to a wider agenda. The interest of family planners is turning to issues of health, motivation for family planning, and contraception prior to a couple's first birth."

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