A "grassroots organization" and the story of AIDS in high-risk groups
2009-11-18 06:51:31 Hangzhou Network
AIDS, an unavoidable topic. According to a recent CDC survey of city, in recent years of AIDS prevention and control of the situation is not optimistic. According to 2008 statistics, the Hangzhou men infected with HIV are women's five times more. And sexual contact is the main way of HIV transmission. Some of the entertainment industry, service industry "special groups" as the disease control experts to focus on high-risk groups.
How can I approached this particular crowd of anti-aids so that they would be willing to listen to common sense, and are willing to accept the doctor's advice to take protective measures, which robes are a great challenge. "In 2005, when we go to salon ask them questions about AIDS, their arguments are ignored, not to mention blood examinations, and be able to escape all flee." City under the anti-Chief of CDC Ai Xi Shengjun说.
Four years later, today, according to monitoring data shows that dozens of the next city services, entertainment hundreds of service personnel, and security awareness rate of AIDS knowledge Full utilization rate has reached 90%. How to know condom usage rate reached 90%? I said a chief of the details, we went to school there, they should take a few dozen boxes. Previously stuffed into their hands are not, and now fight to get, one box is not enough points.
The reason why there is such a big change, because one is called "Sister Company" played a catalytic role in the club operations. Recently, the city has also been named the next national demonstration AIDS comprehensive prevention and treatment demonstration areas. This is the only one in our province.
Experts say, care for the entertainment industry, service industry "special population" is not to encourage their behavior, "like traffic police to promote safety belt, not to encourage speeding like!"
A spontaneous anti-aids the formation of non-governmental organizations
Under the city, according to CDC revealed that in 1251 the past four years, a number of entertainment special services personnel of the blood tests, the results were found in two cases of HIV infection, syphilis is the number of infections more than 10 times higher. In July 2007, when there are a few small-scale entertainment initiative to set up shop in an organization called the "line of clubs under the sister city," urban disease control initiative with the next contact CDC directly link it in the next town. This organization is the only one for the province's entertainment service for AIDS Prevention non-governmental organizations. The purpose of work is very clear: AIDS Prevention, AIDS Prevention does not participate in any non-work related activities. Through advocacy, mobilization of more caring people to participate in the AIDS Prevention ranks, in their own publicity and education of AIDS at the same time to assist District CDC training, peer education, counseling and testing and so on. The club in recent years, the AIDS advocacy interventions have played an active role.
Just started listening to lectures turned away and left a
Later, "sister" reminding "sister"
In this "fellow sister" club where there are currently more than 40 members of the area, are places of entertainment, "Boss." They offered to become a "sister-line club" volunteers. Take the initiative to allow professionals into their workplaces, with the conduct of anti-aids publicity. In this club, they both have "sisters" proportionality.
Club volunteers, the average age of a relatively large number of known as "Sister", their job is on the younger ones still do not know the depth of this trip a "sister" to mentoring. To stay an eye and a little more reminder. But also a "snowball" approach, the development of a mature one, and now volunteers have been the earliest development of more than 10 volunteers, and greatly expanded the advocacy team. "Sister-line" club mainly to do with: Please AIDS Prevention experts to volunteer for AIDS Prevention systematic knowledge of training; of the AIDS Prevention for the future work arrangements; High-risk groups to strengthen publicity and education and counseling and testing.
Beginning when the work is not easy to do. CDC experts in arranging training courses are carried out to the beauty salon, generally half an hour, listening to people over 20, and sometimes hundreds of people. The beginning, to see out of AIDS prevention and control experts to give lectures in condom demonstrations, a lot of "sisters" go away on some pretext or simply ahead of departure, and listen to few people. However, as long as the scene was also, we insist on speaking. Mainly make clear one reason, to teach "sister" were how to properly use a condom. But not to say, this recognition of their behavior is legal. But from the worst aspects of the matter full consideration: the lesser of two evils-phase value.
Expert patient talks, the two years, gradually won the majority of the "sister" accepted. An increasing number of "sister" AIDS is beginning to understand the common sense and proper protective measures.
Now, the area of small-scale service the entertainment industry, an opening or have new people coming in, put the "entertainment female staff health handbook" as a pre-service training manuals; for AIDS Prevention Knowledge and women's health knowledge, the dual training, pre-marked with a needle vaccination needle.
Community assistants played an important role in bonding
Although the sisters peer club, their own desire to health from the initial impetus, but in the beginning of anti-aids essay, including one until now, the next town over 70 communities in 71 health assistants also played an important bonding effect.
Xi chief said that a few years ago, we went to beauty salon, the girl suddenly felt very scared, advocacy of anti-aids results may also be satisfactory. Later, on the launch of these assistants to help us to do the work, the effect much better. Assistant fairly responsible, there are a lot of places and their older sister are now familiar, perhaps it will bend on the road which plays home to a beauty salon to sit and see if there is no new girl, ask if they are not sisters told her that the relevant anti - Ai common sense.
Xi chief said, as early as five or six years ago, we went to a blood sample, with the rate of 20% on the good, and now go to a blood sample, with very basic. Now the club's volunteers have higher self-protection consciousness. Although these people are highly mobile, but with this club, anti-aids publicity will have its own base.
Source: Hangzhou Daily Author: correspondent reporter Zhang Weiwei Shi springs Editor: Luo Yi