Medical institutions will take the initiative to provide HIV testing
http://www.sina.com.cn 2009 Nian 09 Yue 17 Ri 06:21 Shenzhen Evening News
Reporter intern Li Jingwen, Xu Jie another correspondent Zhu Lei goods Nanshan District, reported that the city will be the first medical personnel to carry out field of reproductive health initiative for patients with HIV testing and counseling services that reporters yesterday morning, "the field of reproductive health, medical staff initiative to provide AIDS Testing and Consulting Services (PITC) "the knowledge of the project launching ceremony.

PITC field of reproductive health services project is the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal and Child Health Center, a cooperative project designed to explore the medical institutions, medical staff initiative to provide HIV testing and counseling services and working in the field of reproductive health, a combination of模式. Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, a pilot area for the project, the Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Prevention Unit is responsible for the project.

Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Prevention Feng, deputy director of China Railway Construction is estimated that the current has been detected and the invisible city AIDS patients and HIV carriers is about 8000 ~ 9000 people. Sexual transmission has been replaced in 2007 of AIDS drugs as the primary pathogenic factor in the spread of HIV mother to child transmission is one of the ways. Although the city of AIDS each year about 100 million people the number of tests to detect the ratio even higher than developed countries in Europe and the United States, but to the free screening point of voluntary testing and counseling into a number of only one. Therefore, in medical institutions, medical personnel to carry out the initiative to provide HIV testing and counseling services have become particularly important.

Shenzhen City Health and Population Family Planning Commission Director of immunization in Seoul, said Lam, the field of reproductive health care and the people close to covering pre-marital examination, pregnancy testing, production inspection, and medical and other departments or sections, the medical staff in these areas to carry out the initiative to provide HIV testing and advisory services, should be able to achieve better results.

Lin Seoul introduction, the pilot chose the Nanshan District, mainly by the Nanshan District People's Hospital, Hospital for Chronic Diseases, namely, health centers and maternal and child health hospital for joint implementation, the pilot period of one year. Is expected in the city after the promotion.