Blood had been incurred by the virus into China, Anhui Fuyang Fang Yi civil samples

At 10:48 on December 4, 2008 Source: International Herald Tribune
     December 1, 2008 is the first of 21 World AIDS Day with the theme "Stop AIDS, to fulfill commitments to control the spread." According to official Chinese estimates, China now has HIV and AIDS patients, about 700,000 people, but there are more than 40 million people do not know the severity of their illnesses, which reflect the Chinese community's awareness of AIDS is still not enough. In view of this, various parts of China to World AIDS Day as an opportunity to hold a variety of public activities in promoting public awareness of universal knowledge of AIDS, called on Care for AIDS-infected people and AIDS patients in order to curb the spread of AIDS. Liu Feng-China news agency issued photo



A non-governmental organizations, a group of volunteers, several international institutions, a group of local officials, the Fuyang AIDS patients and children in their care is becoming out of the clouds, stand up bravely

The way the people of Fuyang City in Anhui Province is the most popular place on December 1 that day, the city of Fuyang AIDS children assistance association ( "Fu Association of love") staff, chose to preach here, preying on potential AIDS knowledge, as a love Fu Association Financing of the first object, Nan Nan volunteered to act as volunteers.

In a moment, three of Fuyang a third of students walked in front of her. "Give us a brochure?", "Not to, unless you tell me: There are several routes of transmission of AIDS?" Nan Nan and see if they Youyueyouxiao, Zhang Fu, chairman of the Association to test the love and asked : "If people have AIDS in front of you, you can hug him?" "Can, can." Young man nodded again and again.

"I was." Nan Nan, then they very much surprised that they would be very difficult to present students with two days of the beautiful linked to AIDS. Several senior students immediately take the initiative to shake hands with Nan Nan, and encourages her: "You have to optimistic self-confidence, you and we are the same."

Zhang Ying moved out of order, because the three-child love, but also because of the courage Nannan. Five years ago, I first met Nan Nan Zhang, she is also a very eccentric. "She did not hang out and stood there, talking根本听不见." Now, to see if the Prime Minister, Nannan was no stage fright.

Grandpa Wen demonstration effect

Nov. 29 night, the resident Funan, Wen-Nan Nan took her to see his arms. "Not two years, the higher you long. You still remember the last time you go to Zhongnanhai Kubi Zi also do." In fact, the Prime Minister was also crying.

It was December 1, 2006 of 10:00, Premier Wen Jiabao at Zhongnanhai Ziguangge met Nan Nan and other 14 AIDS children. At that time, the media recorded the Prime Minister and the fragments of dialogue Nannan --

She was the Prime Minister said: "I feel most sorry for are the kids who do not play with me ... ..." she said, choking with any longer. Half-day to hear the Prime Minister did not say a word, he Nannan's notebook to write on this inscription: "strong, hard, hard up!"

Nan Nan did not live up to the prime minister asked. She told the Prime Minister, not only academic performance than two years ago, she was more independent. From the beginning of September this year, her aunt from the family to move out, a person's own lived alone. "You can live it? Able to wash clothes?" Go carefully asked the Prime Minister, to encourage the last Nannan: "the whole society you are concerned, you have to learn to Thanksgiving, the Institute of self, I remember you said you had ? "Nan Nan is mischievous to say:" Grandpa gave me write it down. "

"Nan Nan like to see the Prime Minister to see their loved ones, particularly fractious." Zhang Ying and Premier Wen witnessed the whole process to meet Nannan. This time, the Prime Minister wrote to the Nannan like this: "To stand up, walk, do not stick."

This morning, Yang Ying Zhouqu Fuyang City, Village AIDS orphans in gold red, yellow and Xinmei, Huang Lei three siblings have also been encouraging the Prime Minister. "Grandpa Wen Let us take good care of his grandmother, she is relying on." Dec. 2, Lei Huang recalled. Two years ago, the three siblings who have seen the Prime Minister and Nannan together. "Two years have passed and we still remember Grandpa Wen, we are very happy. On that day, the students are on television we see. They told me that you are now very happy, our national leaders have had to see you."

Since 2003, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on December 1 every year to visit AIDS patients and orphans has become a practice. "The 2003 SARS to the Chinese people a lesson, and since then, central to the beginning of the fight against AIDS to the high degree of national strategies and to launch the 'Four Frees and One Care' policy," AIDS prevention and control regulations "." AIDS policy Research experts, the Party School of the CPC Central Research Institute for Social Development, Professor Jin Wei said.

Fang Yi battle a turning point in China

However, Nan Nan born in 1992, many Chinese people's awareness of AIDS is still a blank. Bi Shi Ying Zhouqu of Fuyang, Funan County, County and other places have been illegally sold their blood run wild, Nan Nan's parents at this time also became blood ranks of the Central Plains in a general. They found that "as long as his arm Yi Shen, 50 earning money" way of getting money, but think of a "living" virus is being eroded Nannan, as well as their own bodies.

Time forward 3 years in Yunnan, Guangxi border, more than 200 ethnic minority farmers have been confirmed infected with AIDS, they had to share drug needles. This is the turning point of China battles Fang Yi, since then, the Chinese government began to focus from the Fang Yi, "refusing to AIDS in the country outside", to "crack down on local and prevention."

Nannan for the parents, "easy money" in good years lasted only three years ahead of the end of it. In September 1994, at Hele's biological products companies offer feedback Anhui Fuyang area of plasma plasma member Lee for "HIV +", the Ministry of Health, a research group then entered the regional Anhui Fuyang to investigate, ultimately locked channels of infection in the single - Mining plasma station. In the first half of 1995, Fuyang City Health Bureau to proceed to the blood supply to reorganize and restructure institutions, take out one of the blood plasma, and gradually eliminated the phenomenon of blood.

However, at this time, AIDS has been known to the country. In 1998, there are 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions reported cases of infection. China's Fang Yi situation all at once with severe abnormalities. However, when parents find themselves infected Nan Nan is already in 2002, from which they sold their blood over the past 10 years, and they therefore missed the best treatment period. Jin Ge year, they both died.

Community awareness has not difficult to imagine

The same was also confirmed to be infected Nan Nan, a time of pain and sufferings and loss of parents suffering, social discrimination after another. "At that time, she had ignored her uncle, also a teacher with her students is not easy to get along, she is hostile to society." Zhang recalled.

Although the Huang family is only three siblings infected parents died, but they suffered the same bad schools. "Students are not willing to sit with us a table, so that we are sitting in the classroom while the final. Who in the village school door, let us Rao Zhaozou." Huang Lei said: "However, teachers and students to me Very good, and I are willing to play. "

Fu love to benefit from this association and the local government's long-term work. From the association founded in 2003, every village to visit a children's AIDS, Zhang Ying will be printed with some knowledge of AIDS posters distributed to the villagers, Nannan in the schools, students accepted is another form of propaganda -- - "Animated release, the booklet." "Over time again test to see if they got any. Or to do class to ask questions, books and pens as a reward." Zhang said.

In August 2006, Fuyang City Bureau of Education for primary and secondary schools in the city issued a document calling for everyone to participate in the "AIDS Prevention, Care for Life" essay competition speech. The results exceeded expectations Zhang Ying, "more than 40 schools participating in Fuyang City, which also participated in the CDC, UNESCO and even China also sent to the office."

To the volunteers at home and abroad

UNESCO's cooperation with Fu love as early as a year ago, is already underway.

"The main thing is to teach us how to do a more standardized, in communities and schools to carry out propaganda work." Zhang said, in 2005, 2006, two years, UNESCO has engaged Beijing, Shanghai and other experts on a lot of training课程.

However, Zhang did not agree with the beginning of this practice, she thought that "the money should be made directly to the children's living expenses." However, the other person in charge of the final message persuaded Zhang Ying: "If you have the ability to improve in the future, will be able to get more money."

Immediate effect. Shortly after the end of the training, in Nike's "Let me play" (playing basketball, and so on through the campaign to help vulnerable groups) in the project, winning the love Fu. With UNESCO, the United Kingdom Save the Children is the object of the training Fuyang government. According to Zhang Ying, Save the Children UK with the main Fuyang City Women's Federation to organize training for government leaders to help the construction of rural health care, as well as Fu's love of children of similar activities.

Fuyang to inject vitality into the work of Fang Yi were volunteers from across the country. Fu started loving Since then, the annual summer vacation, Tsinghua University, Anhui Normal University, and other schools, students have to practice here. Association in more than a dozen staff, university graduates have as many as 6. Anhui Normal University's Music Education Professional Hunters Sun undergraduates in 2007 is one of them. "I was more fortunate, at the very beginning to do volunteer association found here is the life I want."

Talk about AIDS in schools

In Fuyang, a number of section-level officials are also to receive AIDS training. They are responsible for the training of the Anhui Provincial Party School. Since 2001, Jin Wei in the main to the Central Party School, the school department-level officials, in 2004, began to be extended to schools throughout the country.

"Of course, they are the party and the country's precious wealth, it is necessary to protect them, but more importantly, the impact of their decision-making." Jin Wei said that in the past blood-borne account for the relatively large proportion of the time, the Government can do more work, Anti-drug anti-drug, blood management. "In the beginning, many people will have doubts, why talk about AIDS in the schools do? Decision-making as managers, should be taken seriously, not on the whole, is not popular with low attention. If you like Africa, the world is too irresponsible on the . "

In addition to the "why policy-makers to pay attention to AIDS", there are "four stresses": the basic knowledge of AIDS; international and domestic AIDS situation; policies and laws; abroad more successful prevention strategy. "Government attaches great importance to, for example, to participate in society as a whole, the elimination of discrimination and humiliation, emphasis on human rights and so on." Jinwei every lesson should speak for two hours, two hours of discussion. Sometimes visit the local drug or behavioral intervention sites.

However, officials of itself does not know the number of AIDS. Even 5-year project, Jin Wei-led response to a 3000 official survey has agreed to become isolated from three patients with AIDS. The 7-year effect of training, due to constraints, it is difficult to track. Only sporadic feedback from some of the effects seen. Chengde Medical College of the president of the Hebei Provincial Party School in training, go back to open a class of AIDS; Shanxi, a president of the Institute of Socialism (the training of high-level leadership of the united front work departments) to the central listening to the after-Jin Wei, Have to go back to open the same course.

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However, there are some schools euphemistically to her critics. "They feel the need to impede the spread of AIDS, we must hold high the banner of traditional morality in this area." Jinwei with their interpretation of the traditional emphasis on sexual morality can not curb the spread of primary and secondary schools from the beginning of breaking the taboo, from the root of the problem.

Fuyang AIDS education in schools is a good sample. In 2003, the Chinese Ministry of Education provides junior high school to set up AIDS prevention education, implementation of the 5-year, UNESCO continued to assist the Ministry of Education to implement these policies.

"The main co-operation with the Ministry of Education, with the National Institute of Educational Administration, training school leadership, to carry out such an AIDS training activities to enable them to the attention and support for AIDS education in schools." UNESCO AIDS and school health officials Yong-Feng Liu said Chinese projects: "Their aim is to attract young people to master the basic knowledge of AIDS to ensure that the future will not be infected. In addition, the students hope to reduce AIDS, as well as the fear of AIDS and discrimination."

Jin Wei said that she did not see this change. "The Ministry of Education, under a text. However, secondary school teachers have not been very good training, even physical health are not a good lesson, it also involves AIDS, and so it can not speak. My daughter is three this year, the teacher told them to go outside Should not live in small hotels, bed sheets blankets spread of AIDS. "

Unknown future

Worldwide, China is still a low prevalence country, and the situation is not optimistic. Many people worry that China is likely to be Africa, said here today that the number of infections is not, but route of transmission, AIDS in Africa in order to sexually transmitted mainly sexually transmitted growing China, this is a great test.

Jin Wei said the government's AIDS ability to be a challenge. Aspects of the complex. Initially, she was training to set three goals: do not obstruct Fang Yi, in support of Fang Yi, Fang Yi leadership. "In the past few years, Fang Yi hinder a lot of things, although in 2003, the central high-level attitude is very clear, but local interest has been the main, central to the implementation of the grass-roots approach will take time." Jin Wei said the system should To adjust, "GDP, population, social stability and the assessment so that they have been badly battered, but not the content of public health examination, allowing his attention to this very contradiction." Achievements in the future, only to change the concept of public health, environmental protection, UNESCO The Guardian also put the contents in the evaluation, decision-makers in order to promote the management of social change in thinking.

Zhang Ying Fu did not know how far can love. Dec. 1, she saw a survey, 90% of the people know that AIDS transmission, but asked about whether or not willing to live with AIDS, only 8% of the people are willing to. "Discrimination in the country is still very serious." Zhang Ying and will face each of the funds, with different organizations for funding, "I can now see that in the end to help children, but many do not see the Children. "(Reporter Liu)