14th International AIDS Conference Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no. F11794)

Wang Y, Zeng Y, Xu H, Xu H
National Center for disease prevention and control of china, beijing, China

ISSUE: The HIV epidemic has entered into a critical phase in China where there is a rapid increase in infection rate. Unofficially, it was estimated that there were over 600,000 cases of HIV infections by the end of 2000, up to date may be one million. Most of HIV infected and AIDS patients are from IDUs. But, the severe problem was a lot of blood donors who were infected with HIV when the HIV contamination of blood cells was transfused back to the donors. It is estimated that about 30 000 to 50 000 donors have been infected in the Henan province. There were 118 people living with HIV/AIDS in the Yuncheng prefecture, one of the areas in the Shanxi province. All of them are poor farmers and were infected by illegal blood donation the past years. It is believed the real number is far more than this. Discription: In order to explore a model to raise AIDS awareness level and create an environment without discrimination to the PLWHA in a risk area, Chinese Foundation for Prevention of STD & AIDS developed health education and intervention on AIDS in the Xia county of the Yuncheng prefecture from August--December, 2001. Outcome: To held a training session on HIV/AIDS for 180 health professionals and social workers; To conduct basic surveys among farmers from 10 villages; To develop health education and intervention activities, such as TV programs on AIDS prevention and control were shown for 28 days at the county TV station, and for 20 times at the broadcasting stations; To distribute leaflets on HIV/AIDS to 7000 households; To held AIDS Prevention mobile exhibitions in the projected villages; To play Video CD on HIV/AIDS for 4500 farmers; To conduct evaluation survey in a randomly selected sample according to the distance far away from the downtown of the county. The AIDS awareness level was increased; the attitude to the PLWHAs was changed. RECOMMENDATION: Broad intervention in the risk areas should further strengthened.

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