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AIDS check to cover 1.5 mln people in Henan

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-17 16:25:34

Chinanews, Feb. 17 �C In 2006, Henan provincial government will kick off
a large scale AIDS check that will cover 1.5 million people in the
province, according to the information released at a local conference on
AIDS Prevention and Treatment Thursday.
In addition to the AIDS disease check, local government will strengthen
their work of behavior control on six groups of people and improve the
disease monitoring system.
In 2006, local government will thoroughly check the data bank of AIDS
epidemic disease in the region. They will further improve the medical
relief and treatment assessment system and establish a support scheme for
AIDS-infected people. The local government will allocate specific funds,
taking all the life expenditures and tuition fees for the old people and
orphans of the AIDS families.
At the same time, behaviors of six groups of people will be closely
controlled: the spouse of people with a HIV positive, women at maternal
age with a HIV positive, migrant workers, people working in the
entertainment sector, homosexuals, and prisoners and drug addicts.
Meanwhile, the use of condoms will be promoted on a larger scale and in
specific sectors, such as some servicing sector or at some entertaining
places, condoms should finally be provided on full scale.
The local government will further publicize the knowledge on AIDS
prevention and treatment among students. Local education bodies have
decided to include the AIDS knowledge and the knowledge of blood donation
into the teaching plan in general middle schools, vocational schools and
senior high schools.

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