Facing reality, curb AIDS infection among migrant workers

Source: Yangcheng Evening News Online - Jin Yang Commentary on time: 2009-11-02 16:37:10

Author: Hong Qiao Jun


This is one for " 'night, the culture of' light up" the senior official, also "Maple said Brother" of the author that he gave the governor to send condoms, but also his pen never stopped writing the book, said Xing Xie sexual love, was also in the Xuanbu, the National Science and Technology Commission and so on as "National Advanced Worker science", and received the highest award of China's Population and Family Planning, "China Population Award." This man called Zhang Feng, Deputy Secretary of Guangdong Provincial Government
Long, Provincial Population and Family Planning Commission director. (November 2, 2009, "Guangzhou Daily")


Zhang Feng's open and pragmatic, reminds me of a topic, if the officials are like him to face the reality of AIDS in China is not as difficult to contain today? Today, I am most worried is that the farmers unions into groups with high HIV infection.


Many years ago, a media poor rural farmers to sell blood infected with AIDS, made a topic, the reporter asked me in the future the farmers sold their blood infected with AIDS will become the high infection group, I was the kind of answer, farmers sold their blood infected with AIDS, will be fewer and fewer people, because when farmers know that selling blood infected with AIDS is a death sentence, even a god could not save is that when they Zaiqiong did not dare to sell blood. I am most worried about is the possibility for future farmers unions into groups with high HIV infection, they are not selling blood infection, but infection.


But I never thought would come so quickly. Hubei Province to start the second round of AIDS comprehensive prevention and treatment demonstration area construction projects, Xianning Chongyang County start-ups. Reporter with the provincial disease control departments to local visits. As of the end of September, the county's total of 73 HIV-infected, of whom 72 were farmers, 59 people are infected during work outside the home. Only three cases are infected with drug use and blood transfusions, and the remaining 70 cases are all infected through sexual means. According to sources, the 73 cases to return home only last year found more than 15,000 respondents, then Chongyang County, nearly 6 million people in working out who and how many people living with HIV? (November 1, 2009, "the Yangtze River Daily") in accordance with National Bureau of Statistics to monitor the number of surveys, there are 230 million migrant workers, and this 230 million migrant workers in how many people living with HIV? We can not use Chongyang County, 15,000 people have 73 cases of a forecast based on projections, as strange scary, but the number of infected persons should not be a small sum.


A reporter asked me why I originally said, the farmers unions into groups with high HIV infection, I would say that they are affected by low level of education, little access to this knowledge, they now know that selling blood will be infected with AIDS, but many people do not know that sexual life will be infected with HIV, so they would not use condoms to protect themselves. In fact, the largest group of HIV infection should be those in hotels, beauty, bath, massage and other places of rural girls, they all call "migrant workers" in the rural society, their own career has always been confidential, not candidly reveal, they are afraid scolded local people poked spine. There is a group of wives in the countryside, its people working in the city, the men, my wife called them "institutional widow" who has any information contained in this kind of "institutional widow" has 47 million, which corresponds to 47 million How many men able to endure a long-term nature of hunger and thirst, not to "look for Miss"? There is a survey which found that four workers surveyed admitted looked into Miss, but when you find Miss did not like wearing condoms, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, lack of knowledge, lack of the necessary protective measures. This is another group of high HIV infection.


In the rural community outside乱搞男女关系derived from the "disease" are regarded as shameful thing, a lot of people do not come with the blood sample, they identified for fear of AIDS, and shame can not go out, see people. Misunderstanding on this understanding has led to more people actually infected with AIDS, and bear the brunt of their wife (or husband) in distress. Because society as a whole has not yet formed a social atmosphere AIDS prevention and control and operational mechanism of migrant workers and their difficult living environment lack of capacity of self-protection, have to make this group when faced with a serious threat of AIDS very vulnerable. Once infected with HIV, but also easy to become AIDS transmission from urban to rural bridges. AIDS in the general population from high-risk groups to the spread appears to be that people are most worried about the situation.


We can not forget that not long ago created a hubbub of "AIDS woman" Yan Deli case, there was so concerned about this incident, is due to unscrupulous people living with HIV transmission have a sense of abhorrence. Yan Deli is false HIV-women, but who can say there is no such real HIV villages for a girl? Some of those who are infected with HIV for fear of losing the former kind of work and life, they may cover up the remains, as before, its own way, this is the most horrible people.


This is called "the new century, the number one killer of human health," a terminally ill in China, has claimed the lives of many people, how many HIV carriers are struggling with the disease difficult? There is no doubt, China is facing the challenge of AIDS. According to the Ministry of Health, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization assessment that China's current HIV-infected persons is about 650,000. According to the ILO's guess if they do not take an integrated control strategy, by 2015 China will therefore have lost five million total labor force.


Today, this terrible AIDS in the migrant workers are in the simmering. However, they are the most lack of protection measures for groups. The large number of migrant workers and highly mobile groups, at birth, and sexually active period, making them the focus of AIDS prevention and control groups, is very necessary. If not, take measures to carry out a comprehensive prevention and control, left unchecked, the future is even more difficult to control defense. However, at present, it seems that the prevention and control measures are not effective, for those who have been in hotels, beauty, bath, massage and other places of service personnel, not only to check whether they have sexually transmitted diseases, but more importantly, blood samples check whether infected with HIV, if HIV infection is still engaged in this occupation, would not continue in the dissemination of harm?


It has been said, stripping off the top to impose moral restraints on sex, sex workers, the system does not exist then what is original sin, then it should be removed from the shackles of the law (the law is mandatory ethics). Sex workers should also live in the sunshine under the blue sky, it should have its own personality and dignity. This view, not only I agree, many experts and scholars also agree with this view. In this regard, officials may rely on multi-Zhang Feng Qi, learn from his open and pragmatic, we should face reality and stop deceiving itself and others, still holds partly concealed, and since these places of high HIV infection sites, the Government should be asked them to regular medical examinations, security measures must be taken to be complex health conditions. The other hand, migrant workers should be doing a full blood sample examination, comprehensive prevention and treatment, so that it can greatly curb the spread of AIDS.