“Double Butterfly” Condom - Futures Group

© 2002 Horizon Research and Futures Group Europe
Acknowledgements
Founded in 1992, Horizon Market Survey and Analysis Corporation (Horizon
Research) is an independent professional research firm. Employing modern survey
methods and consulting technologies, Horizon Research specializes in providing
investigational services for leading enterprises and analyzing prominent
socio-economic problems arising from the period of market-oriented reforms. Based
on its professional market surveys and profound understanding of China’s social
culture, and benefiting from the senior consulting of Horizon’s Progress Strategy
Division, as well as the instantaneous information services of Horizon’s Horizonkey
website, Horizon Research Group delivers professional overall processed market
surveys and consulting services for domestic Chinese enterprises and international
corporations targeting Chinese markets in this new era of economic development.
Futures Group Europe (FGE) is a research, management marketing, and strategic
planning consulting organization with global expertise and capability. FGE is a
partner under the 2000-2005 China-UK HIV Prevention and Care Project, with
funding from the Department of International Development (DFID). FGE has a
contract with DFID (prime contract number CNTR 00 0383) to carry out a condom
social marketing (CSM) project in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces with the goal of
helping China mount an effective national response to HIV/AIDS in China.
For this project, Dr Victor Y. Yuan of Horizon Research, Dr. Karen Hardee of Futures
Group Europe and Tim Manchester of Futures Group Europe served as team leaders.
Xiaoli Chen was the team supervisor. Team members included: Chengwei Yang,
Nianzhou Li, Bo Liu, Jin Tang, Yan Li. Nianzhou Li and Bo Liu edited the report,
under Xiujuan Yin as editor.
The researchers would like to extend our profound thanks to the gatekeepers, sex
workers and men who participated in the study. The time and cooperation they
extended to us were invaluable in giving us a deeper understanding of the social
context of HIV/AIDS in Yunnan and Sichuan, China.
The research outcome of this project belongs solely to Futures Group Europe. Horizon
Research and Futures Group Europe withhold the technical copyright of the study.