China, home to more than one billion people, is serious about birth control and other problems that come with sex. In fact, the commerce and health ministries in the country issued a regulation ordering hotels, holiday resorts, and public showers to provide condoms.

Beijing News reported Friday that pamphlets about AIDS prevention are also required to be made available from those places.

This move is not enough to fight AIDS in one of the biggest countries in the world, said health experts. Being late in applying prevention methods is one thing, but the lack of sex education is a major problem in trying to fight the virus. China, which used to believe that AIDS was a disease that only gays, sex workers and drug users should worry about, is also a conservative country that refuses to talk openly about sex.