Find Someone Who …..

uses Facebook everyday ___________________________

likes basketball ___________________________

didn’t eat breakfast today ___________________________

drank tea this morning ___________________________

hugged somebody today ___________________________

thinks One Direction is great ___________________________

wants to go to Korea ___________________________

thinks the teacher is fat ___________________________

is angry at someone ___________________________

washes the dishes everyday ___________________________

didn’t take a shower today ___________________________

is happy to be in class ___________________________

doesn’t know your English name ___________________________

watched the new Hunger Games movie ___________________________

wants to go to sleep right now ___________________________

loves to eat Dong Shan Duck Head (東山鴨頭)___________________________

loves to drink vinegar (醋) ___________________________

Questions: Do you?                Are you?             Did you? 

Gender Equality Around the World

Here is an excellent article about Sweden, perhaps one of the best places to be a woman:
http://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/#start

Here is another article about Saudi Arabia, perhaps the opposite of Sweden:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-arab-women-saudi-idUSBRE9AB00B20131112

Here's an article about gender equality in Asia:
http://business.inquirer.net/149083/ph-best-performer-in-asia-pacific-in-gender-equality-wef

Contraception Ignorance in Taiwan

Web site set up to help combat contraception ignorance in Taiwan
了解避孕知識別害羞　婦科醫師線上解答

Chen Ching-hui, a doctor in Taipei Medical University Hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is talking about unexpected pregnancies among teenagers in Taiwan. Every year obstetricians and gynecologists in Taiwan prescribe tens of thousands of abortion pills to pregnant teenagers. Sighing with emotion, Chen says that every year on Sept. 26, World Contraception Day is supposed to remind everyone about the importance of contraception.

Chen says that in European countries such as Germany and France more than 50 percent of teenagers are having sex, while that number is only 20 to 30 percent in Taiwan. Despite that, the rate of abortion in Taiwan is seven times that of Germany and France, which shows just how ineffective sex education in Taiwan. Teenagers in Taiwan lack knowledge about contraception and have nowhere to turn. Becoming pregnant unexpectedly without ways to financially support themselves, young mothers have no means to take care of the child and have a difficult time staying in school or getting a job.

Taiwanese teenagers get most of their knowledge about contraception from the Internet, and mistakenly assume that safe period calculation methods or coitus interruptus is sufficient protection, or that taking birth control pills will cause cancer, or make them barren or gain weight. All of these ideas are unsafe, Chen says. The condom-pill method — the male wears condoms and the female takes birth control — is currently considered to be the most effective contraceptive method among doctors, preventing both the transmission of venereal diseases and avoiding pregnancy.

To actively combat this issue and help teenagers answer all their perplexing questions regarding sex and contraception, the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology recently started a Web site specifically aimed at providing counseling online for teenagers seeking information about contraception (www.8181.org.tw). The site provides accurate sex education info and a platform where medical professionals can offer replies to messages, as well as a navigable guide on contraception and useful medical and pharmaceutical organizations.

A printed version of the guide is available at most medical providers, and there is a free 24-hour hotline that provides professional counseling (0800-25-8181).

(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)

台北醫學大學附設醫院婦產科主治醫師陳菁徽表示，青少女經期較不規則，容易忽略自身狀況，意外懷孕的案例很多，台灣婦產科醫師每年開出好幾萬顆墮胎藥。陳菁徽感嘆，婦產科醫師的天職是不該鼓勵人墮胎的，每年的九月二十六日是世界避孕日，就是提醒大家正視意外懷孕這個議題。

陳菁徽指出，歐洲國家如德國、法國，未成年性行為比例超過五成，台灣只有二、三成，但是台灣的墮胎率卻是德、法的七倍，這顯示台灣性教育落實不足，青少年避孕知識不足、求助無門，意外懷孕後，又因沒有經濟能力，導致孩子扶養、小媽媽就學與就業都陷入困境。

台灣青少年的避孕知識大多來自網路，常誤以算安全期、體外射精就可以了，又誤以為吃避孕藥會致癌、不孕、發胖。陳菁徽表示，這些都是不保險，甚至錯誤的觀念和方法。目前醫界認為最有效的避孕方法就是「保避（保庇）」，也就是以男性戴保險套杜絕性病傳染，女性服用避孕藥防止懷孕。

為了主動出擊、協助青少年男女解答心中對於兩性與避孕的疑惑，婦產科醫學會即日啟用「青少女（年）避孕指引諮詢家」網站（www.8181.org.tw），提供正確兩性教育、線上留言有醫師專業回覆，另可查詢避孕指引和醫藥機構。

紙本的「青少女（年）避孕指引」則可在各衛教通路索取，還有二十四小時免付費諮詢電話（0800-25-8181）提供專業諮詢。

（自由時報記者邱宜君）

AIDS now among top-ten causes of death for youth

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- AIDS is now among the top-10 causes of death among young people in 2012 for the first time in the nation's history, according to CNA News World magazine.

The number of HIV/AIDS patients in Taiwan has been steadily rising, with the fastest rates found in the 15-24 age group,

From 1998 to 2012, the 15-24 age group has seen a 180-percent annual increase in HIV/AIDS cases, the latest issue of the magazine reported.

The magazine cited Ministry of Health and Welfare figures as showing that as of the end of 2012, the accumulated number of HIV/AIDS patients in that demographic totaled 4,716, almost one-fifth of all patients (24,239).