HIV/AIDS education efforts face many obstacles... "Gasps rippled through the group of young people gathered for a workshop on HIV/AIDS prevention and education in the former capital Rangoon. The girls covered their eyes, and the boys sent nervous glances anywhere but at the front of the room, where an instructor stood before an upright model penis. Condoms on sale at a market stall in Rangoon [Photo: Pat Brown] ?Look at it, please,” the workshop leader urged. ?How can you learn to protect yourself against HIV if you are too shy to watch a demonstration about how to use a condom?” This kind of response to condom education is typical in Burma, where an estimated 360,000 people currently live with HIV, according to a UNAIDS report in 2006. Today, condoms can be easily obtained in retail shops in Rangoon and other major cities in Burma. But the country?s predominantly conservative culture can make them a difficult sell. ?I don?t sell condoms in my store any more because many of my staff are young girls who find it difficult to sell them,” said a shop owner in Kyeemyindaing..."