The Social Construction of AIDS Issues

Pan Suiming is professor emeritus and the honorary director of the Institute for Research on Sexuality and Gender at Renmin University of China and Associate Secretary of the Chinese Association of Sociology. He is well-known for the research he carried out on China’s 23 red-light districts from 1998 to 2010 when he interviewed more than 1,000 sex workers as well as hundreds of pimps in recent years. Prof. Pan set up China’s first sex-related curriculum in a Chinese university in the 1970s. Owing to decades of contribution to and influence on sexology, Prof. Pan is ranked as “the first person of Chinese Sexology” and “the godfather of sexology” by Chinese media. Pan has been a loyal supporter of the protection of LGBT rights and same-sex marriage in China for decades. His Sina and Tencent blogs have more than 2 millions’ hits and thousands of comments.

The Social Construction of AIDS Issues and its Implications.- Conflicts and Contradictions in AIDS Prevention and Control.- AIDS Transmission via Sex.- Methodology of AIDS Sociology.- Postscript.