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May 22, 2009
"Me Love you long time"
U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the 'gatekeepers', defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs," says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li.
"Therefore, in this application, we propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a venue-based alcohol use and HIV risk reduction intervention focusing on both environmental and individual factors among venue-based FSWs in China," says the abstract.
The research will take place in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.
Guangxi is ranked third in HIV rate among Chna's provinces--and is a place where the sex business is pervasive, Li said.
“The purpose of the project is to try and develop an intervention program targeting HIV risk and alcohol use,” Li told CNSNews.com. “So basically, it’s an alcohol and HIV risk reduction intervention project."
The doctor said the heart of the study involves “a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial among 100 commercial sex venues in Beihai, a costal tourist city in Guangxi.”
“We want to get some understanding of the fundamental role of alcohol use and HIV risk,” he said. “We use the population in China as our targeted population to look at the basic issues. I think the findings will benefit the American people, too.”
Li said minimal research has been conducted on the link between alcohol use and prostitution as it relates to HIV.
“Alcohol has been a part of the commerce of sex for many, many years. Unfortunately, both global-wise (and) in the United States, very few researchers are looking at the complex issue of the inter play between alcohol and the commerce of sex,” he told CNSNews.com.
The grant is one of several “international initiatives” sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
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Wild Thing's comment........
So I guess they could call this the ChiHo project.
What a scam artist this guy is, so he has all this money, our tax dollars for his grant. More wasted tax dollars.
2.6 million so the “researcher” can go out drinking with prostitues and not even American. Can't they at least make grants only for Americans???
This is so stupid it goes beyond stupid.
Posted by Wild Thing at May 22, 2009 05:40 AM
Comments
Ah, the good old days. "Boom boom, Saigon tea and Cheap Charlies. Beaucoup love ya too much Suzie Wong".
It is amazing what our government will waste money on. Two and a half million dollars to train bar girls to, well, be bar girls.
Posted by: TomR at May 22, 2009 12:17 PM
Tom, yes it is such a waste of money.
One time oh gosh years ago, I read an
article on some of the Grants that
were handed out. Really stupid things
like if one were to pull the wings off
a fly how would be react, that kind of
thing.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 22, 2009 07:36 PM
