Talk back: Debate over forced HIV tests rages on

As HIV begins to spread from high-risk groups in China to the general public, massage parlor, nightclub, and hair salon workers are the focus of attention of health authorities in the prevention of AIDS.

Recently policymakers in Central China's Hunan Province ordered local massage parlor workers to undergo mandatory HIV tests.

The same order was given last year in Henan Province, which was hit by an AIDS epidemic caused by botched blooding-selling schemes in the early 1990s.