China began to allow AIDS walk in the sun
 
2008-12-27 5:01
:: Author Barbara Demick:: Translator river
 
The students fluffy hair cover his eyes, his head like a turtle in a jacket like indented, apparently for their own ignorance embarrassed by it. 39 months ago, he took a blood test report. Before that, in the Beijing University on the 22-year-old art student had never heard of "HIV" (HIV) word. His friends do not know how to use condoms, but do not know why the Condom use.

The anonymity of the students said that they knew, and so on, it was too late. Despite the late hands, but China is trying to carry out prevention and treatment of AIDS-related publicity, officials are deploying volunteer army.

In the Dec. 1 "World AIDS Day" on the same day, the National Stadium "Bird's Nest" Guo Shang was a great "Red Ribbon" logo; Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao and close contact with people living with HIV, we Pictures one after another; national media is full of AIDS victims on the elimination of discrimination and isolation of the picture and comments. Xinhua News Agency recently said that the recognition of AIDS as a disease rather than a disgrace to the (Editor's Note: December 1, the Xinhua News Agency "" I am a patient, not the 'bad guy' "" and called for the elimination of the public Discrimination against AIDS patients).

This propaganda blitz is really surprising. Over the years, the Government has taken a number of AIDS on the cover. About sexually transmitted diseases to an alarming degree of ignorance, recently including students, migrant workers, blue-collar and white-collar workers, including 6,000 people surveyed (Editor's note: in March this year, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis business Malaria and the Federation of People's University of China, and other institutions, "Chinese anti-AIDS knowledge, attitudes and beliefs Union media behavior," the survey in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou City 6, at the same time to start using the streets in the form of random access each The survey is expected to cities in 1000, a total of more than 6,000 people), showed that 48% of the respondents believe that AIDS can be spread of mosquitoes.

However, as more and more resources are put to the 700,000 or more Chinese people living with HIV who, on China's AIDS awareness has clearly come under the sun. Although China is not the world's worst AIDS, HIV prevalence is estimated that less than 0.1 percent, but some of the virus in the population rate of the spread of the Government shocked. Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to infection because they come from a lack of sex education in rural areas.

AIDS in the 1980s just in China, China's propaganda that it is the capitalists and foreigners virus. By the mid-1990s, due to reckless plan to donate blood, hundreds of thousands of rural people were infected. AIDS volunteers, said Li Dan, and some local officials, even with AIDS-related no one is treated as "criminals" or "troublemaker."

Beijing, the capital, but the situation is better than other parts of the country. Volunteer group of public bathrooms in bars and condoms. In the World AIDS Day in Beijing's Chaoyang District, high school students also took part in special lectures, and with the commitment to the fight against the disease.

In a volunteer organization in charge of Beijing - Chaoyang Chinese AIDS intervention of the working group, said Xiao Dong, "The Chinese government has made some mistakes in the past, but there has been a very big change. It seems to me that the Chinese government is to face AIDS and to address the issue of history. "

(:: The United States, "the Los Angeles Times")